34 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMA'I'ES, &C. OF THE I3RITISH MUSEUM, 



The Collection presented by Charles Falconer, Esq., is a very important one, in this 

 point of view, since it contains many specimens which are figured and described, or 

 referred to, in papers now in course of publication. The principal objects are: — 



A fine series of teeth (young and adult) of Mastodon angitst'dens. Rhinoceros and 

 ruminant remains, from Miocene deposits at Sansan, Remains of several species of 

 Mastodon and Elephas, from various localities and deposits ; also several casts of teeth of 

 the same. Tooth of Dinotherium indicum, from Perim Island, and other Mammalian 

 remains from the same locality, as well as from Continental India ; and from various 

 European deposits. A fine head (but with imperfect antlers) of Mec/aceros hibernicus, from 

 Irelai'id. Tooth of Mastodon pandionis, Falc, and a large collection of remains of 

 Hippopotamus and other animals from the Ossiferous Cavern of Maccagnone, near 

 Palermo, North Sicily, found associated with flint implements, (6'ee " Quart, Jour. Geol. 

 Soc." 1860, vol, xvi, p. 99.) 



A very perfect head of a young crocodile ( Crocudilus hombifrons) from the Sewalik 

 Hills, and various other fossils from the same locality. Cast of the head of Rhinoceros 

 megarhinus, and casts of teeth, etc., of various other species from sundry localities. These 

 specimens ai'e from the museum of the late Dr. Hugh Falconer, f.k.s. 



Upper jaw of (Jrsus arctos from Manea Fen, Cambridgeshire ; described in " Owen's 

 British Fossil Mammals," p, 78, Presented by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 

 Bart,, M, p,, F, B, s., etc. 



II. By Purchase.- — The original figured specimen of the skull of Dinotherium giganteum, 

 Kaup, and of Dorcatherium Naui, Kaup, from the Miocene Tertiary formation of Hesse 

 Darmstadt, 



Parts of the upper and lower jaws of Tapirus priscus ; figured in " De Blainville's 

 Osteographie," from Eppelsheim, 



Remains of Mastodon latidens, and IMastodon Perimensis, with Rhinoceros Perime7isis, 

 Bramatherium, and other species, from Perim Island, 



Tusk and molar tooth of Elephas primigenius, from the coast of Norfolk, 



Sternum of a species of Dinar nis, from New Zealand. 



Remains of Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and other Reptilia, from the Phosphate deposits 

 at Potton, Bedfordshire. 



Paddle of a new species of PUosaurus from the Portland stone. Isle of Portland. 



Several fine species of Cheloniu, from the Purbeck beds of Dorsetshire. 



Wing bone of Pterodaclglus, fi'om the same formation. 



Head, with loAver jaw, oi Ichthyosaurus, jdatyodon, in fine preservation, from the Lower 

 Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. 



Fine jaw of Dituxlodus impar, and other interesting fish remains, from the Kimmeridge 

 Clay of Dorsetshire. 



Palatal teeth of Myliobates, ^tobates, and lower jaw of Elasmodus, teeth of Lamna, 

 &c, &c., from the Eocene Tertiary deposits of Hampshire, Sheppey, &c. 



Acquisitions to the Invertebrate Classes : — 



I, By Donation. — The type specimens of Terehratula Dallasii, Waldheimia Wood- 

 wardii, and W. Davidsoni, from the Greensand deposit at Upware on the Cam, ; figured 

 and described in " Geological Magazine," vol. iv., p, 454, pi, xix. Presented by J. F. 

 Walker, Esq., B. A., r. G. s. 



A series of Tremadoc slate fossils, chiefly Trilobites. Presented by D. Homfray, 

 Esq., r. G. s. 



Brachiopoda from Lake Huron, Canada West. Presented by Mr, William Gattis, 



II. By Purchase. — Nine species of Ammonites from the Lower Chalk, Isle of Wight ; 

 figured and described in Mi\ D. Sharpe's Monograph on the Chalk Cephalopoda ; published 

 by the Palieontographical Society, 1853-56, 



Five species of Turrilites (figured in the same work,) 



The type specimens of Trigonia spinosa. Shy, and T. dedalaa, Sby, from the Green- 

 sand, Blackdown; figured in " Sowerby's Mineral Conchology," 



The type specimens of Lima bellula, L. pontonis, Gervillia radians, Cardium, sp. ; 

 Modiola, sp. ; Inoceramus, sp. ; Pachyrisma grande, and Myoconcha crassa ; figured by 

 Morris and Lycett in their work on the Fossils of the Great Oolite ; published by the 

 Palasontographical Society, 1853. 



The types of Diftstopora grandis and Idmonea divaricata (figured in " D'Orbigny's 

 Paleontologie Fran^aise," Bryozoa, vol. v., 1850), and of Eschara Brongniarti and 

 LunuUtes radiata, Goldf; figured in " Dixon's Geology of Sussex." 



Astarte Kickii, Fusus erraticus, Nucula Deshayesii, and 10 other type specimens ; figured 

 by M. Nyst in his " Coquilles et Polypiers des Terraines Tertiaires de la Belgique," 1845. 



The type specimens of Serpula hej^tagona S. fiagelliformis, S. extensa, and two others ; 

 figured in " Sowerby's Mineral Conchology." 



Agnostus nodosus. Belt. A. pisiformis, Linn., Olenus gibbosus, Wahl. Conocoryphe buce- 

 phala, Belt. C. l¥illiamsoiii, Belt, (7, longispina, Belt, Agnostus obtusus, Belt, and A, Bar- 

 lowii, Belt, being the type specimens of New Cambrian Trilobites figured by Mr, T. Belt 

 in the " Geological Magazine," vol, iv., pi. xii., p. 295, and vol v., pi. ii., p. 5. 



The type specimen '•¥ Neolimulus falcatus, from the Upper Ludlow Rock of Lanark- 

 shire ; figured and described by Mr, Woodward in " Geological Magazine," vol, v,, pk i., 

 p. 1, fig 1, 

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