146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



78 specimens of Australasian Tertiary Gastropoda, figured in 

 the British Museum Catalogue, have been tableted and labelled 

 for exhibition. 



The unexhibited fossil Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda from 

 France have been removed from Gallery 8 to the new cabinets 

 in the Workroom, where they occupy 110 drawers. About 11 of 

 these drawers have been revised and labelled. 



The unexhibited Tertiary Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda 

 from Italy have been removed from Gallery 8 to the new 

 cabinets in the Workroom, where they occupy 87 drawers. 



Six drawers of Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda from the 

 J. E. Lee Collection have been re-arranged and incorporated. 



Among the new Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda registered, 

 labelled, and incorporated during the year, may be specially 

 mentioned the Tertiary series from Burma, collected and 

 described by Mr. L. V. Dalton, and a Cretaceous series from 

 Sweden, obtained by exchange with the University of Lund. 



Number of specimens of Mollusca registered : Cephalopoda, 

 '373 ; Gastropoda, 507 ; Lamellibranchia, 573. 



Arthro2:)oda {Gallery 8 and Workroom). — The collections 

 registered and incorporated during the year include a series of 

 Olenellus from the North-west Highlands, and several casts of 

 figured specimens in the Manchester Museum. The main work 

 has been the completion of the Brodie Collection of fossil 

 insects. The mounting, labelling, and registration of the 

 R. S. Bassler Collection of Palaeozoic Ostracoda is in progress. 



The chief additions to the exhibited series are two large 

 slabs containing the relief and impression of two fine specimens 

 of Pterygotus anglicus from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of 

 Carmyllie, Forfarshire, presented by A. W. R. Don, Esq. ; the 

 specimen of Prceanaspides figured by H. Woodward, Geol. 

 Mag., 1908, p. 386, fig. 3, presented by Rev. E. Hinscliff*; and 

 the specimens of Loricula darwini from the Turonian of 

 Cuxton, Kent, described by H. Woodward, Geol. Mag., 1908, 

 p. 491. Other interesting additions are reproductions of 

 Oxyuropoda ligioides, Limulus woodivardi, and Protocarcinus 

 longipes, also selections from the Scottish Olenellus mentioned 

 above. 



The exhibited series of foreign Cambrian trilobites has 

 l^een re-arranged and provided with family-labels, to accom- 

 imodate further representatives of species and genera from 

 the Rocky Mountains. The British series of Euproops 

 ( = Prestwichia) from the Coal Measures, and of Caryocaris 

 from the Skiddaw Slates, have been revised and provided with 

 new printed labels. 



Number of specimens of Arthropoda registered, 4,170. 



Annelida (Gallery 8). — The chief work has been the revision, 

 re-mounting, and re-labelling of the exhibited series of SerpulcB 

 from the English Chalk, which has been much enriched by 

 recent accessions. The collection has been searched for examples 



