ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 5 



During the year 1852, tliere liave been added to the several parts of the Zoological 

 Collection 16,264 Specimens of different Classes of Animals ; viz. : 



Vertebrated Animals ------- 2,303 



Annulose Animals _______ 8,237 



Molluscous and Radiated Animals . - - _ 5,724 



16,264 



The 16,264 Specimens of various classes of Animals which have been acquired during the 

 year, have all been regularly marked and described in the Manuscript Register of accessions, 

 and they have all been arranged in their systematic places in the General Collection, and 

 properly labelled. 



The following Catalogues have been published during the year 1852 : 



1. Catalogue of Mammalia — Part 3. Ungulata furcipeda ; with many Plates of 



Skulls, &c. 



2. List of the Eggs of British Birds. 



3. Catalogue of Homopterous Insects — Part 4 ; with Plates. 



4. Catalogue of Hemipterous Insects — Part 2 ; with Plates. 



5. Catalogue of British Lepidoptera — Part 2. 



6. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects — Part 1. 



7. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera — Part 1 ; 4to. with coloured Plates of new 



Species. 



8. List of Passalidae (Coleoptera — Part 4.) 



9. List of Britisli Anoplura. 



10. Catalogue of Cyclophoridee and Helicinidae. 



1 1. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa — Part 1 ; with Plates of all the Species. 



Beside the Fish, Reptiles, Mollusca, Insects and other smaller Animals, which are prepared 

 in the Museum, and which amount to several thousands in the course of a year, there have 

 been put up, or re -set by the Animal Preserver — 



Vertebrated Animals ------- 793 



Skeletons and Skulls ------- 79 



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 the series, as best lead- 

 ing to the illustration of the scientific arrangement, and as most useful in showing the 

 economic uses of the Animal Kingdom. 



Mineralogical and Geological JBranch. 



During the past year the attention of the Keeper in this Branch of the Natural History 

 Department has been directed, Firstly, to the registration of the new Specimens acquired for 

 the Collection, and the numbers entered are as follows: Of remains of Vertebrate Animals 

 upwards of 700 entries have been made, these including about 2,000 specimens ; of Inver- 

 tebrate Animal Remains the number of entries is 1,083, including about 3,000 specimens; 

 and of Minerals, 670 specimens have been entered. Secondly, in preparing the specimens for 

 exhibition in the cases exposed to the public, and in incorporating them in the general 

 arranged Collection ; and, with regard to the number of objects thus incorporated, it may 

 be observed, that the greater portion of the specimens catalogued during the year have been 

 exhibited in the cases. 



The Department having been recently provided with new and appropriate Store-rooms, the 

 unexhibited portion of the Collection has been, for the most part, arranged in these rooms in 

 such a manner that the specimens can be readily referred to. 



The additions made to the Department during the past year are very extensive, both by 

 donations and purchase. The most important donations aie : an extensive collection, con- 

 sisting of about 300 specimens of Mammalian remains, chiefly from the post-tertiary deposits 

 of Essex, and including unique specimens which, have been figured and described, presented 

 by John Brown, Esq., of Stanway ; a collection of upwards of 2,000 specimens bequeathed 

 by Miss Cowderoy, which is paiticularly rich in the Eocene Tertiary Shells of Barton, and 

 the Isle of Wight; to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison the Department is indebted for the 

 specimen of the " Fossil Fox of CEningen," which has so frequently been figured and 

 commented upon in works on Geology. The Fossil Shells brought from South America by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., and figured and described in his work upon the Geology of that 

 country, have been presented by that gentleman. S.P.Pratt, Esq. has enriched the Museum 

 Fossil Collection by several donations, including speciinens of Ichthyosarcolites, a series of 

 Nummulires from France and Spain, and a collection of Fossils from the Devonian forma- 

 tion of Asturia. An extensive collection of Fossil Plants, from the Coal Formation of various 

 localities, has been presented by Sir P. de M. Grey Egerton, Bart. A series of Tertiary 



319, B 4 Fossil 



