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of boring Annelids, and some specimens have been re-labelled 

 ior exhibition. 



Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 63. 



Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — The collection of 

 Cretaceous Cyclostome Polyzoa has been labelled and arranged 

 in cabinets in accordance with the published catalogue. 



Among collections of Polyzoa registered, labelled, and 

 incorporated during the year, the following may be specially 

 mentioned : — Upper Cretaceous specimens from Riigen, from 

 the Agnes Laur Collection ; English Chalk specimens from the 

 "Cockburn Bequest, the Gamble Collection, and the W. Harris 

 Collection ; specimens from the Greensand of Dorset, collected 

 and presented by W. D. Lang, Esq. ; and the Mockler Collection 

 from the Bradford Clay. 



Examples of Polyzoa in masses forming rocks have been 

 labelled and tableted for exhibition in table-case A. 4. 



Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 2,483. 



Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom), — The J. F. Walker 

 Collection has been examined, cleaned, and arranged in the 

 original cabinets, which comprise 181 drawers. Much progress 

 has also been made with its registration. The type and figured 

 specimens, about 150 altogether, have been tableted and labelled 

 for exhibition, and a slip-catalogue of these specimens has been 

 prepared. 



A series of 73 type and figured specimens of Ordovician 

 Brachiopods from Budleigh Salterton, Vicary Collection, has 

 Ibeen tableted and labelled and added to the exhibited collection. 



Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered : Walker 

 Collection, 39,164 ; General Collection, 1,160. 



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

 recent accessions registered, labelled, and incorporated : — 

 Crinoidea from the Lower Carboniferous of Inverteil, Fife, 

 (R. Dunlop Collection) ; Crinoidea, Asteroidea, and Echinoidea 

 from the Chalk of Kent (Cockburn Bequest) ; Asteroidea and 

 Echinoidea from the Cretaceous of Lebanon (Gollmer Col- 

 lection); casts of type-specimens of Asteroidea (Manchester 

 Museum) ; Echinoidea from the Cretaceous of Sweden (Lund 

 University). A beginning has been made in arranging the 

 remainder of the Wright Collection of Echinoidea recently 

 acquired. 



Among specimens mounted and labelled for exhibition are a 

 large slab of Muschelkalk with numerous crowns of Encrinus 

 carnalli; the type-specimen of Tetracrinus (V) felix from 

 the Red Crag; some recently described Permian examples of 

 Miocidaris ; several Chalk specimens of Cardiaster and other 

 Echinoids (chiefly from the Cockburn Bequest), involving the 

 re-arrangement of the exhibited specimens from the English 

 Cretaceous rocks ; a series of the Clypeastroid, Scutellina 

 patella, showing a brood-pouch in the females. In accordance 



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