ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 2.3 



A new species of Achatina from tlie Cameroons Mountains. 



A collection of Shells f om India, North Aaierica, and Africa. 



A large collection of Shells from Sweden. 



A series of Shells from the Amur and Caspian. 



A large collection of Shells (many of them new), from Vancouver's IsUiud and British 

 Colnnibia, presented by J. K. Lord, Esq. 



A large collection of corals from Japan. 



An extensive collection of Zoophytes and Echinoderms from Australia, the Fiji 

 Islands, Sec. 



A large colleciion of Annelides from Cornwall. 



A collection of Zoophytes, &c., from Sweden. 



Eich of the 13,1'29 specimens added to the Collection has been regularly marked with 

 its (late and number, and described in the Manuscript " Register of Accessions," with the 

 notice of t!ie locality from whence it was derived, and the manner in which it was acquired. 

 These particulars add greatly to the value of the specimens, as they give a history of each 

 for future use. 



A number of the more interesting specimens of these additions, and a large number of 

 those which have been in the Collection for years, have been described by various scientific 

 Zoologists, and by the Officers of the Establishment, in transactions of Scientific Societies, 

 or in olhtrr peiiodicals, and especially in the Catalogues issued by the Trustees of the 

 British Museum. 



The specimens so described are rendered more important, as they become the authorities 

 to which fiiiure Naturalists must refer to test the authenticity of the descrii)tions of the 

 species. 



The following Catalogues have been published during the year 1862 : — 



List, of Osteological specimen^. Mammalia. 

 Catalogue of Fishes, Vol. 4, by Dr. Giinther, f. z.s. 



Catalogue of Lepidoptera lieteroceia, Parts 24 and 25, by Francis Walker,. 

 Esq., r.L.s,, &c. 



The Collections in the public rooms, and ihose kept unstuffed for study, have been 

 cleaned, and many families and larger groups of different animals have been re-arranged, to 

 insert the specimens recently received, to replace those which have become deterio- 

 ratrd by exposure, and to keep the Collection on a level with the progress in Zoological 

 classification, and thus afford the public, and the students, the means of studying the 

 science in the most efficient manner. 



Numerous labels that had become antiquated, or had been destroyed by exposure, have 

 have been verified and restored. 



In the Entomological Collection, v\hicli is very much studied, many porlions have been 

 revised and re-arranged, so as to keep ii on a par with the different works published on the 

 various families, and also to remedy the crowded state of the drawers, arising from the 

 continual addition of new specimens. 



Many new labels have been added on the stands of the Animals exhibited, more than 

 61,000 letters having been painted during the last year. 



In addition to the large number of specimens of Fish, Reptiles, Mollusca, Insects, Crus- 

 tacea, and other smaller animals, that are prepared in the Museum, there have been set up 

 by the taxidermist :■ — 



Mammalia, stuffed - - - 2l( " skeletons - - - 35 



' L - skulls - - - 36 



Birds - „ - - - 62 - skeletons - - - 37 



Reptiles - „ - - - 23 - „ . _ _ 4 



Fishes -,,---8- ,, ---49 



211 Animals have been mounted on stands; 521 have been remounted. 141 skulls have 

 been fixed on tablets. 1,500 kmds of Reptiles, Fishes, and Mollusca have been placed in 

 bottles, registered, and labelled. The individual bones of 12 skeletons have been numbered. 

 2,200 bottles have been re-labelled. 



John Edw. Gray. 



Department of Geology. 



The chief works executed during the past year are as follows : — 



In Room I. numerous recently acquired additions to the Collection of Fossil plants have- 

 been incorporated in the series exhibited in the table and wall-cases, and considerable pro- 

 jiress has been made in the arrangement of the unexhibited Collection; these plants having 

 been grouped in geological order, in the drawers under the table-casc'*. 



In Room II. very extensive additions have been made to the Collection of Fossil Fishes, 

 especially from the great Solenhofen Collection, hereafter to be alluded to. All the larger 

 specimens have been mounted in frames, and otherwise prepared previous to their being 



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