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



In the Greek series the following may be specified as among the most important acqui- 

 sitions : — A Gold Stater of Seleucus I,, of high rarity, not previously existing in the 

 Museum Collection; a rare and fine Copper Coin of Colone in theTioad; many new types 

 of Copper and Silver Coins of towns in Lesbos, Ionia, and Caria, particularly a new and 

 very remarkable Silver Coin of Termera, a town in the province last mentioned; a fine Tetra- 

 drachm of Rhodes, and one of the Island of Cos. Several new and fine specimens have 

 been added to the series of Sub-Parthian Coins, especially a Tetradrachm of an unascer- 

 tained King. 



To the Oriental series have been added several Gold Coins of the Mamluk Sultans of 

 Egypt, a large number of those of the Kings of Saurastran, and a considerable collection of 

 the Money of various dynasties, including some Coins previously unknown. 



In the Modern series, the Saxon and English Collections have received extensive and 

 highly important additions from the sale of the late Mr. Cuff's Collection. Among these 

 may be particularized the celebrated Pattern Crown of Henry VIII. A fine Collection of 

 early Hungarian Coins has also been acquired, as well as three rare specimens of the Money 

 of the Vandal Kings of Carthage, namely, a Quinarius of Huneric, and another of Thrasa- 

 mund, with a Denarius of Gunthamund. 



Department of Natural History. 



Zoological Branch. 



The Collections of Shells have been re-arranged, so as to place them in accordance with 

 the present state of our knowledge of the animals which form them. The specimens in the 

 Northern Zoological Galleries have been re-ananged since the alteration of the skylights 

 and the re-painting of those rooms. 



The arrangement, naming and cataloguingof the Zoological Collections have been regularly 

 proceeded with, and several foreign and British zoologists have been employed in describing 

 the hitherto unrecorded species which the Collection contains. 



The extent to which the description of the Museum Collection has been carried on has 

 rendered it the great storehouse of the Typical specimens, from which very large numbers of 

 species of animals of all classes have been described, so that the consultation of the Collec- 

 tion has now become absolutely necessary to the naturalists of all parts of the world, who 

 vaay be desirous of extending the domains of their science, and fairly knowing what has 

 been before recorded or described. 



To render the Department even more worthy of attention in this respect, several Collections 

 of English and foreign authors, containing the typical examples described and figured in 

 their works, have been added to the Museum during the year. 



During the year 1854, there have been added to the several parts of the Zoological Col- 

 lection 24,413 specimens of different Classes of Animals; viz.: 



Vertebrated Animals ---___- 903 



Annulose Animals --_____ 9,6fi3 



Molluscous and Radiated Animals _ _ _ - 13,847 



24,413 



The 24,413 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 have all been arranged in their systematic places in the General Collection, and pro- 

 perly labelled. 



The following Catalogues have been published during the year 1854: 



1. Catalogue of Gronow's Collection of Fish. 



2. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects, Odonata, 



3. Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects; I. Heterocera. 



4. Catalogue of British Lepidoptera — Part 4, Tinema. 



5. Catalogue of Diptera — Farts 5, 6. 



6. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects — Part 2, Apidse. 



7. Catalogue of the Shells of South America. 



8. Catalogue of the Shells of Cuba. 



9. Catalogue of the Shells of the Canaries. 

 10. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa — Part 2. 



Beside several thousand Fish, Reptiles, Mollusca, Insects, and other smaller Animals, 

 which are prepared in the Museum, there have been set up, and re-set by the Animal 

 Preserver — 



Vertebrated Animals ____--• 278 

 Skeletons and Skulls ------- 92 



The 



