144 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



By Professor Rudolf Burckhardt, Ph.D., University 

 of Basle. 



On Hyperodapedon Gordoni. Geol. Mag., 1900, Dec. iv. 

 vol. vii., pp. 486 and 529, pi. xix., and 3 text figures. 



By Frederick Chapman, a.l.s., f.r.m.s. 



(1.) On a Patellina-Limestone and another Foraminiferal 

 Limestone from Egypt. Geol. Mag., 1900, Dec. iv., vol. vii., 

 pp. 3-17, pi. ii. 



(2.) Tertiary Foraminiferal Limestone from Sinai. Geol. 

 Mag., 1900, Dec, iv., vol. vii., pp. 308-316 and 367-374, pis. 

 xiii. and xiv. 



V. — Work of the Mason-Formatore and Assistant-Mason, 



Mammalia. — Preparing and colouring casts of Rhytina 

 gigas, of Halitherium canhami, of Trichecodon huxleyi, 

 casts of several teeth of Mastodon, teeth of Mesoplodon and 

 Berardius ; making mould and casts of " whales-horn " : 

 also casts from brain-cases of several Mammalian skulls. 

 Colouring casts of brains of Ungulata. for comparison of 

 the different regions. Colouring casts of hands of Chimpan- 

 zee ; making a series of 32 enlarged models of teeth of 

 various Carnivora for exhibition-case ; also 17 models of 

 upper molars of Ungulata. 



Modelling (from fragments of skull and photographs, 

 aided by small skull of recent Lemur) a restoration of the 

 skull of the great extinct Megaladapis insignis (under the 

 direction of Dr. C. I. Forsyth-Major). 



Developing, cleaning, and mending a large number of fossil 

 mammalia from Patagonia ; skulls of Nesodon, &c. 



Setting up afresh the skeleton of Toxodon. 



Aves. — Articulating new skeleton of Dodo, modelling miss- 

 ing parts of skull, vertebrse, ribs, toe-bones, &c., and making 

 ironwork and setting up in glazed show-case. 



Making copies of Archceopteryx and of casts of skull of 

 Phororhacos for exchanges. 



Mending and mounting pelvis of Hesperornis regalis. 



Reptilia. — The nearly perfect skeleton of an adult Plesio- 

 saurian {Gryptoclidus oxoniensis) from the Oxford Clay of 

 Fletton, near Peterborough (temporarily set up and exhibited 

 in a pier-case in Gallery 1), has now been permanently 

 mounted and set up in a specially-prepared glass-case in the 

 centre of the Reptile Gallery. 



