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Department of Geology. 



T. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — The Standing Collection 

 of fossil lemurs from a marsh in Madagascar has been registered 

 and incorporated. 



The unexhibited remains of Rhinoceros from Pleistocene 

 deposits have been arranged and labelled in the drawers of 

 table-case 4. 



The remains of early Tertiary Perissodactyla and Hipparion, 

 exhibited in table-case 5, have been re-tableted with new printed 

 labels, and re-arranged to admit important recent acquisitions. 



Case U, containing the Dinocerata. has been repainted and 

 provided with new printed labels. 



Pier-cases 20 and 21 have been re-arranged and re-fitted 

 for the exhibition of recent acquisitions of plaster casts of 

 Litopterna (especially Macrauchenia) and Toxodontia, from 

 the National Museum, Buenos Aires. 



The exhibited remains of Edentata in table-case 14 B have 

 been cleaned, re-labelled, and partly re-arranged. 



Four photographs and some fragmentary remains of a 

 mammoth and rhinoceros found preserved by petroleum in an 

 ozokerite mine in Galicia, Austria, have been framed and 

 exhibited on the wall near pier-case 32. 



Pier-cases 36, 37, have been completely re-fitted and 

 re-painted for the exhibition of Stegodon and Mastodon from 

 Asia and Europe; the specimens have been mounted and 

 provided with new printed labels. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 469. 



Reptilia and Amphibia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11). — A plaster 

 cast of the fore limb of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis, from the 

 Stonesfield Slate near Oxford, has been mounted and exhibited 

 on Stand K. 



Limb-bones of Dinodocus mackesoni from the Upper 

 Greensand of Hythe, Kent, have been mounted and added to 

 the collection of Sauropodous Dinosaurian bones in wall-case 4. 



An important series of specimens of Stereosternum, from 

 the Permo-Carboniferous of Brazil has been incorporated, some 

 being exhibited in table-case 24 and in a frame on the adjacent 

 wall. 



The large plaster cast of Plesiosaurus cramptoni in wall- 

 case 13 has been renovated and re-painted. 



Number of specimens of Reptilia and Amphibia registered, 

 695. 



