ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. I5 



Department of Natural History. 

 Zoolo<y,lcul Branch. 



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The Collection of Cheiroptera has been removed from the Northern Zoological Gallery 

 into the new cases in the Mammalia Saloon, so that all the Mammalia are arranged together. 

 The Collection of Specimens exhibiting the economy of the different animals has been 

 extended, and occupies the cases which contained the Cheiroptera. 



The arranging, naming, and cataloguing of the Zoological Collection have been regularly 

 proceeded with ; and in this occupation, beside the regular staff of the Museum, several 

 foreign naturalists, as Drs. Kaup and Pleifier, and M. Deshayes ; and some British zoolo- 

 gists, as Messrs. G. Busk, J. O. Westwood, F. Walker, W. Dallas, and H. D. Stainton, 

 have been specially occupied on certain parts of the Collection. 



During the year 1853, there have been added to the several parts of tlie Zoological Col- 

 lection 112,400 Specimens of different Classes of Animals; viz.: 



Vertebrated Animals ------- 1,979 



Annulose Anim.als -_-_._. 105,406 



Molluscous and Radiated ------ 5,015 



112,400 



The 112,400 Specimens of various Classes of Animals, which have been acquired durint^ the 

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

 and have been Jirranged in their systematic places in the General Collection, and pro- 

 perly labelled. 



The following Catalogues have been published during the year 185.3: 



1. Catalogue of British Lepidoptera — Parts. 



2. Catalogue of Longicorn Coleoptera — Part 1. 



3. Catalogue of Hymenoptera — Part 1. 



4. Catalogue of Homoptera — Part 3. 



5. Catalogue of Neuroptera — Part 2. 



6. Catalogue of Brachiopodous MoUusca — Parti. 



7. Catalogue of Phanerapneumona. 



8. Catalogue of Bivalve Shells — Part 1. 



9. Catalogue of Entozoa. 



10. Nomenclature of British Hymenoptera. 



11. Nomenclature of British Neuroptera. 



12. Nomenclature of British Diptera — Part 1. 



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

 prepared in the Museum, and which amount to many thousands in the course of a year, 

 there have been put up, and re-set by the Animal Preserver — 



Vertebrated Animals - - - - - - - 432 



Skeletons and Skulls - - - - - - - 124 



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 leading 

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

 uses, of the Animal Kingdom. 



The following are the most important additions : — 



The Ccllectioi^ of British Insects formerly belonging to James Francis Stephens, Esq., 

 containing the type species described in his works, and in those of other British entomologists. 



An extensive Collection of Birds and Insects from the Amazon, Nicaragua, Bogota, and 

 Mexico. 



The Collection of Crag Fossils presented by Searles Wood, Esq., being the type specimens 

 described in his works. 



A Collection of Corals and Shells from the Red Sea, collected by the late Lord Valentia. 



A Collection of Shells, Corals, &c., from Teneriffe, Madeira, 8cc., collected and presented 

 by R. MacAndrew, Esq., f. r.s. 



A Collection of Crustaceous, Molluscous, and Radiated Animals, from the Arctic Seas, 

 collected by Dr. Sutherland and Governor Hollbbll. 



Miner alogical and Geological Branch, 



A new Room having been added to this Branch of the Department of Natural History, 

 which Room is now nearly ready to receive part of the Collection of Fossils, the Keeper has 

 made some important changes in the grouping of the Fossil Remains, by which the various 

 divisions of the Vertebrate Animals are made to follow each other in their natural order, and 

 increased space has been gained for some parts of the Collection which were overcrowded. 



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