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The following collections have been registered and incor- 

 porated in the general series : — - 



(1.) Col. C. C. Grant's Collection from Palaeozoic Formations 



in Ontario, Canada. 

 (2.) The Finkelnburg Collection from the Upper Cambrian 



(St. Croix;;'Sandstone) of Minnesota, U.S.A. 

 (3.) Mrs. A. D. Davidson's Collection from the Ordovician 



(Hudson River Group) of Indiana, U.S.A. 

 (4.) The Stlirtz Collection from the Callovian Jurassic, 



Government Kownow, Russia. 

 (5.) Collections made by Dr. F. A. Bather in the Silurian 



of Gotland, the Pentland Hills, and Leintwardine 



(Herefordshire), and in the Cambrian, Ordovician^ 



and Silurian of Esthonia. 

 (6.) The Montmorency Collection from the Carboniferous 



Limestone of Bundoran, Donegal. 

 (7.) The Ellis Collection, chiefly from the Inferior Oolite of 



the West of England. Twenty large specimens have 



been prepared and mounted on blocks for exhibition. 

 Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 3,358. 



Echinoderma (Gallery 8). — The drawers in the cabinets 

 of Echinoidea have been re-arranged to provide space for 

 specimens hitherto temporarily placed in boxes. 



Numerous specimens of Echinoderma have been registered, 

 labelled, and incorporated from the Bather, Finkelnburgj and 

 Montmorency Collections already mentioned. Other impor- 

 tant series also added are the following : — 



(1.) Crinoidea from the Upper Tithonian of Nesseldorf, 



Moravia, collected by Dr. M. Remes. 

 (2.) Crinoidea chiefly from the Wenlock Limestone of 



Gleedon Hill, Salop, collected by Mr. H. Smith. 

 (3.) Crinoidea and Asteroidea from the Chalk of Brighton, 



collected and presented by W. McPherson, Esq. 

 (4.) Crinoidea, Asteroidea^ and Echinoidea from the Miocene 

 of Gard and Yaucluse, France, collected by Mons. 

 C. Bartesago. 

 (5.) Crinoidea and Echinoidea, chiefly from the Miocene of 

 Gard and Vaucluse, collected by Mdlle. B. Chatelet- 

 Sinard. 

 Among the more interesting specimens added to the 

 collection may also be mentioned Sphcerocystis and Camaro- 

 ci^i-Jius from the Silurian of Maryland, U.S.A.; specimens of 

 Petalocrinus described by F. A. Bather in Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, Aug. 1898 ; Uintacrinus showing tegmen, as 

 described by F. Springer in Mem. Mus. Comp. ZooL, Harvard, 

 1901 ; bored spines of Cidaris from Danian, Seeland, as 

 described by K. A. Gronwall, Meddel. dansk. geol. Foren. 

 1900; example of an Echinoderm breccia from Riigen, as 

 described by W. Deecke, Mitth. Verein Vorpommern, 1900. 

 Some of these have been mounted for exhibition. 



Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered, 1,257. 



