ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The wall cases in the Northern Zoological Gallery are nearly completed, and the speci- 

 mens of Fish and Reptiles which have been removed into them will be arranged and 

 exhibited to the public in the course of the summer, as will also the Quadrumanous and 

 Glirine Mammalia, the Crepuscular and Nocturnal Lepidopterous Insects ; and several families 

 of the Coleopterous Insects, as the Melolonthidae, Cetoniadse, Buprestidse, &c. of the general 

 collection, have been arranged. 



In the year ending the 25th of December 1841, 10,238 specimens of various classes of 

 animals have been added to the collection, and all of these have been arranged in their 

 places in the general collection. 



The 16,238 specimens which have been received during the year ending the 25th Decem- 

 ber 1841 have been regularly entered in the manuscript catalogues of accessions. 



The former Catalogues of Insects have been copied into a regular series of books, and 

 numerous species added to them. 



Between the 25th December 1840 and the 25th December 1841, there have been added 

 to the several parts of the zoological collection in the Museum 16,238 specimens of different 

 classes of animals ; viz. 



Vertebrata ------ 1,93G 



Annulosa ------ 3,744 



Mollusca and Radiata - - - - 10,558 



Total - - - 16,238 



Many of these are scarce and valuable ; among them may be specified — 



All the species of Mammalia, Reptiles and Shells, and a selection of the species of Birds, 

 collected by Mr. Gould in Australia. 



A collection of Fish from Dalmatia. 



Specimens of British Birds and their young, presented by Mr. Joseph Baker and Mr. H. 

 Doubleday. 



Specimens of Reptiles and Shells from Port Essington, presented by Captain Wickham. 



Specimens of Reptiles and Shells from the Himalaya, presented by Dr. Horsfield, and 

 from Europe by Messrs. Parreyss and Zeigler. 



Specimens of Shells from the Columbia river, presented by Lady Katherine Douglas. 



The collection of Limestone Fossils formed by Mr. Gilbertson of Preston. 



A large series of European Lepidoptera. 



Specimens of Orthoptera and Hemiptera, presented by Mr. Edward Doubleday. 



Botanical Branch. 



The Keeper has proceeded with and nearly completed the arrangement of the very extensive 

 class of plants called Compositae. 



He has been employed for a very considerable portion of his time in selecting and sub- 

 sequently arranging specimens from a Collection formed chiefly in the Philippines and 

 the Malayan Peninsula, the extent of which selection is given in the following account 

 of accessions, and he has also arranged other Collections from Persia, Syria, Guatemala 

 and Australia. 



He has during the last year received into his custody, by command of his Royal Highness 

 Prince Albert, as a present from Her Most Gracious Majesty, an extensive and very valuable 

 series of drawings of plants by the late Francis Bauer, esquire, being that part of Mr, 

 Bauer's drawings made at the expense of the late Sir Joseph Banks, baronet, which did not 

 accompany his Library and Botanical Collections when transferred to the Museum, but 

 was bequeathed by Sir Joseph to his late Majesty King George the Fourth. 



During the year there have been added to the Collections, either by purchase or as 

 presents — 



2,433 species of plants from the Philippines, etc. 



47 5 species of plants from Western Australia. 

 2,036 species of plants from Brazil. 

 1,907 species of plants from Syria and Persia. 

 200 species of plants from Abyssinia. 

 108 species of plants from Guatemala. 

 126 species of plants from Chili. 

 200 species of plants from Lapland. \ 



Department of Antiquities and Coins. 



In the course of the last year, the new rooms for the reception of the Etruscan, Greek 

 and other fictile vases have been completed, and preparations are making for the arrange- 

 ment of the objects to be there exhibited. 



A collection of various objects from the South Sea Islands, presented by Her Majesty, has 

 been arranged in cases in the first room. 



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