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



Specimens Kegistered during the year 1867 : — 



Of the Vertebrate Classes ------- 660 



(Which includes 536 entries, being all the specimens of 

 Vertebrata obtained during the year.) 



Cephalopoda ---------- 562 



Other MoUusca __------- 5,729 



Polyzoa _-_------- 61 



Insecta -----------53 



Crustacea ---------- 195 



Echinodermata - - - - - - - - -316 



Zoophyta _-_-----_- 562 



Foraminifera and Sponges - » - - - - -283 



Fossil Plants 735 



(Of the 8,496 entries of Invertebrata and Plants, upwards of 

 2,000 refer to acquisitions of previous years.) 



Total - - - 9,156 



Geo. R. Waterhouse. 



Department of Mineralogy. 



The Collection has been increased during the year 1867 by 813 specimens, which have 

 been entered, catalogued, labelled, and distributed in their places in the Collection. 

 The work of the Department has besides consisted in — 



1. The cataloguing and labelling of the specimens previously incorporated from the 

 Kokscharow Collection, mounting on pedestals and labelling the more choice crystals of 

 that Collection ; selecting and incorporating in the reserve drawers specimens from the 

 Monticelli Collection, and labelling the Minerals in the duplicate and reserve collec- 

 tions. 



2. In determining the crystalline forms, and inscribing their symbols on many of the more 

 choice crystals in the cases containing the Phenakites, the Topazes, Chrysoberyls, Cro- 

 coisites, and on specimens of quartz and of other species not previously thus illustrated. 



3. The addition of a small Laboratory to the department, which has been made during 

 the year, affords the means, never before existing, of determining with precision and cer- 

 tainty the constitution of minerals offered for purchase, or of such as were in the Collec- 

 tion, but the true places for which in it were doubtful. Valuable results have already 

 accrued from this means being afforded to the Department ; and at the present moment a 

 series of analyses are in progress which will serve to give much certainty to the indica- 

 tions afforded by the microscope as to the composition of Meteorites, and will enable a 

 scientific classification of the very important collection of these bodies in the Museum to 

 be adopted. 



The more important additions to the Collection have been — 



I. By Presentation : — 



A very fine octahedral crystal of gold from California ; by Professor Blake. 



Specimens of Lepidomelane, Cryophyllite, and Danalite, from Rockport, Massachu- 

 setts ; by Professor Cooke, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Beekites; M. F. Tupper, Esq. 



Pisolitic Iron-ore, Indus ; Clay Ironstone, Yorkshire ; by Major-Greneral Twemlow. 



Sard, India ; Mr. Enderby. 



Chalcedony, ladre-et-Loire ; Christy Trustees. 



Jade (two specimens), New Zealand, China ; J. Ruskin, Esq. 



Two Fluor- Sp^r Vases ; Mrs. Anlaby. 



Chalcedony and Fuchsite ; Department of Minas, Paraguay ; 



Rhoinbohedral Quartz and Calcite with Quartz, Uruguay ; by W. Gr. Lettsom, Esq., 

 Her Majesty's Minister to the Republic of Uruguay. 



Chalybite and Iron-glance, Brendon Hill ; by Sir W. Trevelyan, Bart. 



Chloride of Silver, Ave Maria Mines, San Luis Potosi ; by L. W. Blackie, Esq. 



Specimens of Analcime, Chabasite, Elaterite, Chromite, and Iron-glance, from Aus- 

 tralia; by Dr. Ulrichs. 



Two large masses of Crystalline Grraphite, fram Essex Co., N'ew York; by Arthur 

 Harvey, Esq. 



Three 



