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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Forty-four Isopods from Spain and the Balearic Islands 

 collected and presented by Messrs, O. Thomas and E. I» 

 Pocock. 



Sixty-four Isopods from New Zealand, similarly obtained 

 from Dr. Chilton. 



Six Brachyura from Torres Straits, being that portion of 

 Prof. Haddon's collection which was needed for the Museum. 



VevTiies. — Dr. Goeldi has been so good as to present thirty- 

 one land Planarians from Brazil, a part of the material on 

 which Prof. Graff based his gigantic monograph. 



Echinoderma. — Among the more interesting are four 

 Crinoids from Cuba, a Salenia profundi, once the property 

 of Prof. Martin Duncan, who described the species, and 

 sixteen Spatangoids from the West Coast of Ireland, showing 

 the large size to which some species grow in that locality. 



Anthozoa.— The most interesting additions are a set of 

 co-types of the new species described by Miss Hiles from 

 Funafuti and Dr. Willey's Collection. 



VI. — Visitors and Students. 



The number of visits paid to the various parts of the 

 Department by students and other persons requiring infor- 

 mation and assistance, amounted to 11,923, as compared 

 with — 



10,728 in the year 1899. 

 1898. 



-LV,Ot>V 



9,708 





JLUC/U. 



1897. 



7,995 





1896. 



8,189 





1895, 



10,730 





. 1894. 



10,872 





1893. 



10,932 





1892. 



9,443 





1891. 



9.034 





1890. 





E. 



Ray Lankester. 



Acting Keeper of Zoology. 



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