ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



other sections of Mammalia, chiefly from the Tertiary deposits of Essex, have Hkewise beers 

 added to this collection since the last Annual Report. 



As deserving of special notice in this place, may also be spiecified two series of Silurian 

 Fossils, lately acquired by purchase ; the one from Dudley, consisting chiefly of Crinoidea ; 

 the other from Bohemia, of mostly new genera and species of Trilobites. 



The same may be said of two fine slabs of the Sandstone of Greenfield, Massachusetts, 

 exhibiting those enigmatical impressions generally called Ornithichnites, because they are 

 supposed to be the tracks of birds, although (as on one of these slabs) they are seen to attain; 

 the size of 18 inches in length by 14 in width. 



Zoological Bronrh. 



No alteration has been made in the general disjjosal of the Collection during the last year,, 

 but the Rooms in the south front, being now nearly finished, will shortly have the Mam- 

 malia re-arranged in them. 



A collection of Osteological specimens has been commenced for the purpose of showing 

 the generic characters of the Vertebrated Animals, and of facilitating the researches of the 

 Palaeontologist. The Collection is now the most extensive of the kind in the country, and is 

 rapidly increasing. 



The attention of the Keeper and his Assistants has been chiefly devoted during the last 

 year to the formation of a Catalogue of the Osteological Specimens, and the continuance of 

 the Catalogue of the Mammalia, Birds, Lepidopterous Insects, Crustacea and Shells, though 

 the increase that has been made in the other parts of the Collection will show that they 

 have not been neglected. 



The specimens of the species of the various classes of Animals which have been acquired 

 during the year, have all been arranged in their proper systematic places in the general Col- 

 lection. 



All the specimens received have been regularly entered in the Manuscript Catalogue of 

 accessions. Numerous additions have been made to the systematic Catalogues of Mammalia, 

 Birds, Reptiles, Insects, Crustacea and Shells. 



A systematic Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of the Mammalia and Birds pre- 

 sented to the British Museum by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., and Catalogues of the Chalcididous 

 and of the Lepidopterous Insects have been printed and published at a cheap price ; and a 

 Catalogue of the Crustacea, of the remainder of the Lepidopterous Insects, a descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Mammalia, and a Catalogue of the Osteological specimens are in the 

 press, and will be shortly published, the Crustacea and Osteological Catalogues being, 

 nearly completed. 



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

 lection 18,676 specimens of different classes of Animals ; viz. 



Vertebrata : — Mammalia _ _ _ - . i,:i60 



Birds ------ 1,911 



Reptiles ------ 63a 



Fishes - - - - - -631 



4,535 



MoUusca and Radiata ------- 3,960 



Annulosa --------- io,181 



18,676 



Besides the Fish Reptiles and Insects prepared in the house, there haA'e been prepared, 

 by the Stuffier during the past year — 



Mammalia ------- 390 



Birds -------- 696 



Reptiles and Fish ------ 6 



Lepidopterous Insects ----- i^eoo 



Hymenopterous Insects ----- 600 



Skulls and Skeletons ----- 450 



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

 selected from large Collections, as those most requii-ed to complete the series, and as being 

 scarce and valuable, and leading to the illustration of the science. 



There may be more particularly specified : — 



Various specimens of Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Insects and Shells from the Earl 

 of Derby, which have either died at his Menageries, or have been received from the Col- 

 lectors who have been sent to the Gambia, the Cape of Good Hope, Australia, or the Kocky 

 Mountains. 



An adult male Ourang Outang ; an adult Nasalis larvatus, and a large series of Fish 

 from Borneo, Amboina and New Guinea, purchased from the Leyden Museum. 



A large collection of Mammalia from the Cape of Good Hope, purchased from the Stock- 

 holm Museum. 



A collection of Birds selected from the collection of Prince D'Essling, presented by 

 E.Wilson, Esq. 



xV large collection of Birds, Reptiles and Fish from Madras, presented by T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 1 89. B A collectioa 



