138 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Geology. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Besides the examination and incorporation of recent 

 acquisitions, the chief work of the year has been the registra- 

 tion, labelling, and arrangement of old collections, which 

 needed special study while the preparation of the history of 

 the geological collections was in progress. Details may be 

 enumerated in s^^stematic order : — 



Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — A characteristic slab of 

 the Lower Pliocene Bone-bed from Pikermi, Greece, has been 

 mounted in a special case near table-case 1. 



The specimens in the drawers of Garni vora, Equidae, 

 Pala30theriid?e, and Hippopotamidse, have been arranged and 

 labelled. 



Pier- case 10, containing the Fossil Horses, has been- 

 cleaned, painted, and partly re-fitted to accommodate the 

 remains of Hijiparion from Pikermi, Greece. 



Teeth and jaws of Hii^paricn from the Lower Pliocene 

 Bone-bed of Concud, Teruel, Spain, have been mounted and: 

 labelled in table-case 5. 



Teeth and jaws of the pigmy hippopotamus, Hippo- 

 piotamus minutus, obtained by Miss Bate from the caverns 

 of Cyprus, have been mounted and labelled in table-case 6. 



A collection of remains of large Eocene mammals 

 (Bradytherium and Arsinoitherium) from the Fayum, 

 Egypt, has been mounted and arranged in wall- case 22. 



A unique skull and mandible of Arsinoitherium zitteli,. 

 and part of the mandible of A. andrewsi, obtained by 

 Dr. Andrews from the Eocene of the Fayum, have been 

 mounted in a special case, temporarily placed in the Central 

 Hall. 



The fossil Cetacea remaining in the Department of 

 Geology after the removal of the principal specimens some 

 years ago to the Gallery of Cetacea, Department of Zoology, 

 have been arranged in two glazed cases with the study 

 collections in the Basement. 



Eecent Slrenia belonging to the Department of Zoology 

 have been placed in pier-case 29, and in the large case with 

 Rhytina, to be in proximity to their extinct representatives. 



A stuffed Indian Elephant, and the head of an African 

 Elephant, belonging to the Department of Zoology, have 

 been placed in Gallery 1 for comparison with the extinct 

 Proboscidea, 



Four photographs of the carcase of a Mammoth in the 

 Siberian tundra, taken by Dr. Herz, of • the Zoological 

 Museum, St. Petersburg, have been framed and fixed on the 

 pillar between pier-cases 31 and 32. 



