DEPAETMENT OF GEOLOGY. 137 



The revision of the Teleosfcean fishes in the Collection, in 

 preparation for Part lY. of the Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, 

 has been completed, and the greater part of the Catalogue 

 is now printed. 



Table-cases 52 to 56, containing Teleostean fishes, have 

 been completely re-arranged in accordance with the forth- 

 coming Catalogue, and numerous printed labels, with a few 

 diagrams, have been affixed to specimens in Table-cases 49 

 to 56. The drawers beneath these cases have been re- 

 arranged, preparatory to labelling, in accordance with the 

 forthcoming Catalogue. 



Fossil Fishes registered during the year, 483. 



B.— Invertebeata. 



Mollusca. — Ceiohalopoda (Gallery 7).— During the past 

 year, the following collections have been named, registered, 

 and incorporated in their proper order in the series, viz. : — 



The '' Clemenceau Collection" of French Cretaceous and 

 Jurassic Cephalopoda. 



A series of Ammonites, &c., from Somaliland, collected by 

 Mrs. Lort Phillips. 



British Silurian Cephalopoda from Herefordshire and 

 Worcestershire, part of the '' G. H. Piper Collection." 



Tertiary and Secondary fossils from New Zealand, part of 

 Sir James Hector's Collection. 



Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Cephalopoda from Russia, all 

 carefully localized, collected by Dr. F. A. Bather. 



The S. S. Buckman Collection of British Jurassic Nautili. 



Number of Cephalopoda registered, 545. 



Mollusca. — Gasteropoda and Lamellibranohiata (Gal- 

 lery S). — The work of naming and arranging the Robert Bell 

 Collection of English Crag (Pliocene) Mollusca, has been 

 continued, and is now nearly completed. 



The following collections have been registered and incor- 

 porated in the British and Foreign series in this Gallery, 

 namely : — 



(a.) Dr. Schrammen's Collection of German Oxfordian 



Mollusca. 

 (6.) Mollusca from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), 



collected by Dr. C. W. Andrews, and described by 



R. B. Newton, f.g.s. (see " Mon. Christmas Island," 



1900, pp. 201-205, Brit. Mus. N.H.). 

 (c.) Mr. R. T. Glinther's Collection of Miocene shells from 



Persia ; described by R. B. Newton (Journ. Linn. 



Soc. 1899). 



