138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



from the Upper Cretaceous of Norfolk (Brydone collection), 

 Kent, Oxfordshire, RLigen (Laur collection), Russia and Lebanon 

 (Gollmer collection) ; the Bathonian of Gloucestershire (Slatter 

 collection); the Lias of New Zealand; the Carboniferous of 

 Dumfries (McPherson collection); the Silurian of Shropshire 

 and Herefordshire (Piper collection) ; and the Ordovician and 

 Cambrian of Oeland. 



Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 3,101. 



Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — Progress has been 

 made in the arrangement of the drawers of unexhibited Polyzoa 

 in the cabinets which have now been fixed in the Workroom. 



Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 1,874. 



BracMojpoda (Gallery 8). — The unexhibited general collec- 

 tion of Brachiopoda in drawers has been re-arranged on the 

 same plan as the unexhibited collection of Mollusca, and a list 

 of the contents of the cabinets has been prepared. A slip 

 catalogue of the type and figured specimens is in progress. 



Among the collections registered, labelled, and incorporated 

 during the year are the following : — Recent species from R. F. 

 Damon ; the Caroline Birley bequest of miscellaneous speci- 

 mens ; the Vicary bequest of Brachiopods from Budleigh 

 Salterton (Ordovician), and from the Devonian and Cretaceous 

 formations ; British and Foreign Palseozoic Brachiopods from 

 the G. H. Morton collection; Devonian Brachiopods from North 

 Devon, from the R. H. Valpy collection ; Lower Palseozoic 

 Brachiopods from Sweden, collected and presented by Dr. F. 

 A. Bather ; a large series from the Trias of Bosnia, collected 

 by V. Hawelka ; and numerous Jurassic species from the J. F. 

 Blake collection. 



Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 11,633. 



Echinoderma (Gallery 8). — The following are the chief 

 recent accessions that have been registered, labelled, and 

 incorporated : — Eocene Asteroidea from Hampstead Well 

 (Wetherell collection); Cretaceous Echinoidea, Asteroidea, and 

 Crinoidea from Norfolk (Brydone collection), Oxfordshire 

 (Chatwin and Withers collection). Vendome (Filliozat collec- 

 tion), and Syria (Gollmer collection) ; ^Carboniferous Crinoidea 

 from Clare (Douglas collection), and Yorkshire (Wilmore 

 collection) ; Cystidea and Crinoidea from the Ordovician and 

 Cambrian of Oeland (Bather collection). Various specimens 

 from the Klipstein, Lee, Prestwich, and Slatter collections have 

 also been studied and registered when necessary. 



The exhibited series of British Cretaceous Ophiuroidea has 

 been entirely re-arranged and re-labelled in accordance with 

 recent work. A similar re-arrangement of the Cretaceous 

 Asteroidea is in progress. 



Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered : Echi- 

 noidea, 280 ; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 252 ; Crinoidea, 

 361 ; Cystidea, 575. Total, 1,468. 



