ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Numerous additions have been made to tlie systematic. Catalogues of Mammalia, Birds, 

 Reptiles, Insects, Crustacea and Shells. 



A systematic and descriptive Catalogue of the Lizards or Saurian Reptiles, with their 

 synonymes, references to where they are figured, and an account of the state and oriiiin of 

 each specimen in the Collection, and a description of each genus and species, desiderata 

 to it, with a reference to the Museum where they can be seen, has been printed and 

 published at a very cheap price ; and this Catalogue, which contains the description of more 

 than six hundred species, and more than two thousand specimens, has been widely distri- 

 buted. 



Similar Catalogues of the Mammalia, Passerine Birds, Ophidian Reptiles, Lepidopterous 

 and Chalcididous Insects, Crustacea and Shells, and of Mr. Hodgson's collection of 

 Animals and Drawings, are in progress. The Catalogues of Mammalia, Lepidopterous and 

 Chalcididous Insects, and of Mr. Hodgson's Animals and Drawings, are already in the press, 

 and the two latter will very shortly be printed. 



In the " Zoology" of Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, published under the authoiity 

 of the Lords of tiie Treasury, in the " Genera of Birds," and in several other Zoological works 

 now in progress, many of the new species contained in the Museum Collection have been 

 figured and described. 



During the past year, there have been added to the several parts of the Zoological Col- 

 lection 1T,398 specimens of different classes of animals ; viz. 

 Vertebrata : — Mammalia _ - - - 



Birds 



Reptiles 



Fishes 



1,103 





2,918 





908 





913 







.5,842 

 2,389 



. 



- 



299 



- 



8,868 



17,398 



Mollusca 



Radiata 



Annulosa 



together with 670 Drawings of Mammalia, Birds and Reptiles 



The additions to the Collection have not been so numerous this year as they were last ; 

 but every year, as the Collection becomes more complete, it is more difficult and more 

 expensive to supply its deficiencies and fill up its lacunae. 



Besides the Fish, Reptiles and Insects prepared in the house, there have been prepared 

 by the Stuffer during the same period — 



Mammalia ------- 207 



Birds -------- 510 



Reptiles and Fish ------ 50 



767 



Lepidopterous Insects ----- 1,600 



The greater part of the specimens which have been added to the Collection have been 

 selected from large collections, as those most required to complete our seiies, and as being- 

 scarce and valuable, and tending to the illustration of the science. There may be specified — 



A beautiful specimen of the Aurochs (Bison jubatus) and its skeleton, from Lithuania, 

 presented by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. 



Sundry animals recently dead, various Birds, Insects, etc. from New Holland, Malacca, 

 and the Rocky Mountains, presented by the Earl of Derby. 



A very extensive collection of Mammalia and Birds, and their skeletons, and of the 

 Drawings illustrative of them and their habits, from Nepaul, presented by Brian H. 

 Hodgson, Esq. 



An extensive collection of Birds, Reptiles and Insects, from Pernambuco, Para and 

 Mexiana, presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq., and Mrs. Smith. 



The Collection of Reptiles formed during the voyage of The Beagle, presented by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq. ; and 



An extensive series of Mammalia, Birds and Fish, from the Cape of Good Hope ; of 

 Insects from Silhet, Honduras and Jamaica. 



Botanical Branch. 



The Keeper, since his last. Annual Report, has completed the incorporation with the 

 arranged Herbarium of the additional species of the Class Leguminosse, from the various 

 unarranged Collections : he has examined and added to the General Herbarium the exten- 

 sive Siberian and Oriental Collections purchased in 1844 ; has arianged the Collections 

 lately received from Western Australia, and proceeded with the re-arrangement of the 

 General Herbarium. 



He has, since his last Annual Report, received as presents or by purchase the following 

 Collections and Specimens : 



1,120 Specimens (the greater part distinct species) from extra-tropical South America, 

 collected and presented by Captain P. King, r.n. 

 521 species, collected in the late Antarctic voyage, and presented by Dr. Joseph 



Hooker. 

 330 species of Quito. 

 151. B 232 



