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The drawers and some of the cases of Tertiary and 

 Cretaceous Plants have been re-arranged to allow more space 

 for the Wealden and Jurassic Plants. 



The Glossopteris Flora has been collated, named, and 

 labelled, partly arranged in the drawers of table-case 25, 

 partly selected for a special exhibition in wall-case 14a. 



Part of the silicified trunk of a fossil coniferous tree from 

 Arizona has been mounted and exhibited in a special case in 

 the middle of the gallery. 



Number of specimens of Plantse registered, 5,749. 



Tracks and Dynamical Collection (Gallery 11). — Progress 

 has been made in the arrangement, mounting, and labelling 

 of this collection in wall-cases 6, 7. 



Number of specimens registered, 382. 



Volcanic Exhibition. — The Assistant Keeper has prepared 

 and arranged in the central hall a temporary exhibition to 

 illustrate the recent volcanic eruptions in the West Indies. 



III. — Work of Mason, Assistant Mason, and Workshop 

 Attendant. 



A large number of fossil mammalian remains from Egypt, 

 Greece (Pikermi), and Spain (Concud), have been extricated 

 from the matrix, hardened, and prepared for exhibition. 



Several slabs of Devonian fossil sharks (Cladoselache) 

 from the Clark Collection have been prepared for exhibition 

 and imbedded in frames. 



A Mosasaurian skeleton (Platecarpus) from the Chalk of 

 Kansas, has been prepared for exhibition. 



Progress has been made in mounting a gigantic Dinosaur 

 from the Oxford Clay, Peterborough (Leeds Collection), on an 

 iron framework. 



Various moulds and casts have been made for exchange 

 with other Museums. 



The mason has superintended the mounting of a plaster 

 cast of a skeleton of Selache in the Department of Zoology, 

 and has made numerous plaster casts of fossils for the same 

 Department. The workshop attendant was also employed 

 by the Department of Zoology for two months in making 

 models of skulls and dentition of ancestral horses. 



IV. — Printing of Labels. 

 The preparation and printing of labels for the exhibition- 

 galleries of the Museum have been continued. For the 

 Department of Geology 1,234 labels have been composed and 

 7,931 copies printed. For the Department of Zoology and 

 Central Hall 591 labels have been composed and 6,598 copies 

 printed. 



