112 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Reptilia and Batrachia. 



The painted shelves in two of the wall-cases devoted to 

 Lizards have been covered with artificial ground-work. A. 

 skeleton of the Leathery Turtle, prepared from a specimen 

 stranded on the Welsh coast, has been added to the exhibition- 

 series, and a new case constructed to contain this specimen 

 and the model of the same species. Several models of reptiles 

 and batrachians, acquired by purchase, have been added to 

 the exhibition-series. A group of green Lizards from Jersey, 

 the gift of Major H. G. J. De Lotbiniere, has also been installed 

 in one of the wall-cases. 



The congested state of the Spirit Building has continued to 

 interfere seriously with the good order of the collections and 

 has rendered access to them more and more difiicult. 



Pisces. 



Twenty-one additions have been made during the year 

 to the exhibited series in the Fish Gallery, and include 

 specimens showing the differences between the Sole and the 

 Lemon Sole, a series illustrating convergence among long-bodied 

 fishes, and a series of fishes provided with suckers. 



The large cast of the skeleton of the Basking Shark has 

 been repainted, and numerous repairs have been effected upon 

 this and on other specimens in the Gallery. 



Four hundred and seventy printed labels have been placed 

 with the fishes exhibited in the North half of the Gallery 

 (wall-cases 7-14), in substitution for manuscript labels ; and a 

 hundred and six labels for the orders, sub-orders and families 

 of these fishes have been printed and mounted. 



Progress has been made with the revision and arrangement of 

 the collection of Freshwater Fishes of Africa, a first volume of 

 a systematic catalogue of which was published during the year. 



MOLLUSCA. 



Besides the ordinary work of registration, mounting and 

 incorporation of the numerous acquisitions, the following is 

 the principal work done in connection with the collection of 

 Mollusca. 



The collection obtained by Dr. Andrews at Christmas Island 

 has been worked out and reported upon. Some groups of the 

 study collection have been rearranged, and the very large 

 shells have been removed from two of the old uj^right cases and 

 displayed in a new wall-case. 



The species of the genera Libitina and Phenacalepas, and 

 some Volutidse and Olividse have been determined, and the 

 species of the genus Erato have been worked out and reported 

 upon. The type specimens of Trochidse from the Hanley 

 ■Collection have been identified, mounted and incorj)orated. 

 The early stages of the genus Humphreyia and the egg-capsules 

 of Melo have been studied, and accounts of them prepared. A 

 large collection of Marine shells from Bombay, and series from 

 Central Australia and the Falkland Islands, have been named. 



