120 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



been arranged in drawers in the Insect Gallery, and those in 

 spirit in two high cases in the Spirit Building. The Keratosa 

 of several minor collections have now been incorporated 

 in the general collection, whilst the larger collections 

 (Bowerbank British, Johnston, O. Schmidt and Lamarck) 

 are still kept separate. A large and very interesting col- 

 lection of Sponges, dredged in deep water off the coasts of 

 Cape Colony and Natal, and presented by Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist, 

 has now been fully worked out and described, and is repre- 

 sentative of the Sponge Fauna of South Africa. Small 

 collections of Sponges and Polyzoa obtained by the " Southern 

 Cross " have been reported on. Historical notes on the 

 collections of Tunicata, Polyzoa, &c., have been drawn up. 

 The general collection of slides of Polyzoa has now been 

 arranged in the new large cabinet, about 10,000 named slides 

 being placed in scientific order, whilst the trays have been 

 labelled and lists of genera made. 



A series of fifteen coloured illustrations representing the 

 main groups of Hydroidea, Hydrocorallinae, Hydrozoa and 

 Polyzoa has been placed on exhibition in the Coral and Shell 

 Galleries. 



II. — Exchanges and Duplicates. 



Duplicates have been presentedto theMuseums of Edinburgh, 

 Dublin, and Calcutta ; the Universities of Christiania, Cape 

 Town, Montreal, Melbourne, and Otago ; Owens College, 

 Manchester ; Tientsin Mission College ; Training s.s. " Wor- 

 cester " ; and Mr McOran Campbell. 



Exchanges have been effected with the American Museum 

 of Natural History, the Cambridge University Museum, the 

 Paris Museum, the Christiania Museum, the Field Columbian 

 Museum, Chicago, Prof. F. W. tlutton, f.e.s., Prof. Mario 

 Bezzi, the Hon. Walter Kothschild, m.p., Dr. E. A. Heath, Dr. 

 F. Werner, and Messrs. A. E. Pease, H. E. Dresser, S. Nerout- 

 cheff", H. B. Preston, A. Haylock, Rene Oberthur, M. Jacoby, 

 H. E. Andrewes, and F. Bates. 



III. — Departmental Library, 



Fifty-five separate works in 70 volumes, and 1,113 new 

 numbers of periodicals and parts of works in progress, 

 obtained by purchase, presentation, and exchange, have been 

 added to the Departmental Library. One hundred and 

 eighty-two volumes have been bound. The library now 

 contains 10,470 separate works, represented by 15,571 

 volumes. A general re-arrangement of the serial works 

 has been effected during the year, and 1,290 visits have been 

 paid to the library by students, artists, and others requiring 

 information. 



All books added to the Entomological section have been 

 press-marked and entered in the Manuscript Catalogue, 



