106 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



the specimens have also been placed tickets bearing the letters 

 B F F to signify that the fishes in question are British Food 

 Fishes. All the wall-cases, floor-cases, table-cases and cabinet- 

 cases have been numbered, and the numbers are quoted in the 

 Guide-book. 



Fifty-one specimens of fishes have been restored and 

 coloured according to published coloured figures and descrip- 

 tions, in continuation of the work begun in 1904, and eight 

 new stuff'ed specimens have been introduced into the series in 

 the wall-cases. Eleven morphological preparations have been 

 added to illustrate some of the anatomical features that are 

 utilised in the classification of fishes. 



The card-catalogue of the specimens on exhibition has been 

 enlarged by the addition of 130 entries, and a special list of 

 the osteological and odontological preparations has been 

 drawn up. 



The doorway at the North end of the Gallery has been 

 boarded up, and coloured uniformly with the backgrounds of the 

 wall-cases, for the display of three large Rays and of the Tarpon 

 presented by Mr. A. L. Allen. The rough backgrounds of the 

 Mackerel, Shark, and Great Blue Shark have been smoothed 

 and distempered. 



The floor-case of the Sail-fishes, and the floor-case containing 

 the Angler, Tarpon and Opah, have been rearranged and the 

 specimens relabelled ; and alterations have been made in the 

 table-case of the Cyclostomi. 



All the large fishes not in glass cases, those hanging from 

 the side rails and those supported on the fioor, have been 

 provided with printed labels protected under glass. 



In the spirit building the new cases have permitted the 

 expansion of rather more than half of the Fish collection, the 

 remainder of which is in a condition approaching chaos. A 

 number of large collections of Fishes still remain packed in 

 tanks and large bottles, and it has not been found possible to 

 incorporate them duiing the year. The collection of Fish 

 skeletons has been arranged and labelled, and a manuscript 

 catalogue prepared of them. Progress has been made with a 

 catalogue of the freshwater Fishes of Africa, the first volume 

 of which is in the press. 



Mollusca. — The principal work done in connection with the 

 collection of Mollusca has been the registration, mounting, and 

 incorporation of the numerous acquisitions. The species of the 

 family Vanikoridoe have been worked out and monographed ; 

 the collection presented by the subscribers to the Euwenzori 

 expedition has been reported upon, and a series of specimens 

 from the same region, received from Major P. H. G. Powell- 

 Cotton, has also been named ; some South African marine 

 shells have been described, and the re-mounting and re-labelling 

 of the exhibited land shells has been continued. 



