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Teeth and jaws of a pigmy elephant, Eleijhas Cypriotes, 

 obtained by Miss Bate from the caverns of Cyprus, have 

 been arranged and labelled in table-case 21. 



Pier-case 41 has been fitted to receive the remains of 

 European Miocene Mastodons, which have been newly 

 mounted and labelled. Photographs of a restored skeleton 

 in the Paris Museum, have been placed for comparison on the 

 adjoining wall. 



The jaws of Dinotherium in wall-case 43 have been; 

 mounted on stands. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 429. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — No additions have been made to the 

 exhibited collection of Fossil Birds, except a phalangeal of 

 the hallux of the Dodo. 



Number of specimens of Aves registered, 9. 



Eeptilia and Aw^pliihia (Galleries 3, 4, 5). — The Mosasauria 

 have been completely re-arranged, with new fittings to in- 

 corporate recent acquisitions, in wall-case 1. Some Fossil 

 Crocodilia from India and Egypt have been mounted and 

 arranged in a small portion of the same case. 



The tail, left hind-limb, and right fore- limb of the 

 Sauropodous Dinosaur, Cetiosaurus leeclsi, obtained by 

 Mr. A. N. Leeds from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, have 

 been mounted on ironwork on a special stand in the middle 

 of the Gallery. 1 he bones of the hind-limb of an Indian 

 Elephant have also been mounted on an adjoining stand for 

 comparison. 



A slab of Purbeck Limestone showing sun-cracks and 

 footprints of Iguanodon, presented by Sir John Mowleni 

 Burt, has been mounted on a special stand near the remains 

 of Iguanodon. 



A plaster cast of the sknll of Limnosaurus trans- 

 sylvanicus, from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary, has 

 been mounted in wall-case 7. 



The shell of a large tortoise, Testudo ammon, from the- 

 Eocene of the Fayum, Egypt, has been mounted in wall- 

 case 12. 



The labelling and arrangement of the drawers of Fossil 

 Reptilia have been continued. 



Number of specimens of Reptilia registered, 129. 



Pisces (Gallery 6). — Wax models of the problematical 

 Devonian fish, Palceospondylus gunni, presented by Prof. 

 W. J. Sollas, have been mounted with an explanatory label 

 in table-case F. 



A slab of ironstone with Palseoniscid Fishes {Acrolepis 

 molyneuxi), obtained by Mr. A. J. C. Molyneux from the 

 Permo-Carboniferous of the Sengwe Coalfield, Rhodesia, has 



