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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



I. — Arrangement. 

 A. — Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — A collection of 

 remains of land mammals from the Red Crag has been placed 

 in a new table-case (1a) in the first recess of Gallery 1, on 

 the south side. 



Wall-case 3 has been largely re-arranged to admit of the 

 reception of the fossil Primates transferred from the table- 

 case in the first recess. 



The Creodonts, Insectivora, and Chiroptera, have been 

 tableted, and re-arranged, and provided with new labels, in 

 table-case (2a) in the second recess. 



Pier-cases 4 and 5 are partly re-arranged, and a fine tusk 

 of Trichecus huxleyi, from the Red Crag of Suffolk, is added 

 to the series. 



Remains of Brachyodus have been exhibited in table-case 7, 

 and a foot of Bison occidentalis in wall-case 16. Some addi- 

 tional remains of Nesodon, from Patagonia, are mounted in 

 wall -case 20. 



Wall-case 21 has been partly re-arranged and the type- 

 specimen of the skull of Halitheriu^n canhami, from the 

 Crag of Woodbridge, has been added. 



The series of cetotolithes, or tympanic bones of Balcena, 

 the rostral bones of Ziphiidce ; casts of skulls of Squalodon 

 and Zeuglodon, and other Cetacean remains, till lately ex- 

 hibited in Table-case No. 11 and pier-case 21, have been 

 placed on exhibition in the recent Whale-Room on the western 

 side of the Museum. 



North side Gallery 1. — The fine series of Mastodon teeth, 

 in table-case 23, have been mounted, named, and provided 

 with printed labels. 



The arrangement of the series of sections illustrating the 

 development of the molar teeth in the Proboscidea in table- 

 case 24 is nearly completed. 



East end of Gallery 2, — Stonesfield Slate Mammalia. A 

 jaw of Phascolotherium huchlandi, from the Morton Collec- 

 tion, has been added to the series of Jurassic mammalia in 

 table-case 23. 



Number of specimens of mammalia registered, 834. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — A restored skeleton of the Dodo (JDidus 

 ineptus), from Mauritius, has been articulated and mounted 

 in a separate case. 



