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



Department op Geology. 



The principal additions to this Department during the past year are as follows : — 



I. By Donation. — Fin-ray of Ptychodus spectalilis, from the Lower Chalk, near 

 Reigate, Surrey. Presented by Prof. N. S. Maskelyne, f.g.s. 



Fish remains of various genera, also palatal tooth of Climaxodus ovatus (figured in the 

 "Geological Magazine," 1868, vol. v. p. 496) from the Low Main Coal-seam, Newsham 

 Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Presented by T. P. Barkas, Esq. 



Fossil fish, and sternal and pelvic bones of Pliosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay, 

 Dorset. Presented by J. C. Mansel, Esq., F.G.S. 



Portion of the jaws of Melitosaurus champsoideSy Owen, from the Miocene of Malta. 

 Presented by Captain Strickland. 



Tooth of Dinothrrium pentnpolamkum (referred to in Falconer's " Paloeontological 

 Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 5.) from Noorpoor, India. Presented by Prof. Huxley, ll.d. 

 F.E.S., &c. 



Remains of Rhinoceros hemitcBchu.i, Canis, Ursus, and Elephas avtlquiis, from the Gower 

 Caves, Glamorganshire (referred to in Falconer's " Palaeontological Memoirs," vol. ii.) 

 Presented by Colonel E. K. Wood. 



Upper jaw of Rhinoceros Eiruscus, from the Tejares, Malaga (referred to in " Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc." vol. xv. and in Falconer's " Palasontological Memoirs," vol. ii). Pre- 

 sented by Prof. D. T. Ansted, f.r.s. 



Cast of the Brain-cavity of Mastodon, from Indiana, U.S. North America. Presented 

 by the Chicago Academy, U.S. 



Left ramus of the lower jaw of Mastodon andium, from Chili, and three teeth of 

 Elephas antiquus (figured in the " Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis," and in Falconer's " Palajon- 

 tological Memoirs"). Presented by the Trustees of the Canterbury Museum. 



Lower jaw and portion of femur of Trogontheriitm (figured in Owen's " British Fossil 

 Mammals," figs. 72 and 73), from the Forest-bed at Cromer, and the Crag at Norwich; 

 also Cetacean remains and IVl osasaurian remains from Alabama, U.S. North America. 

 Presented by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. 



Nine specimens of plant-remains from the Longmynd rocks of Sweden. Presented by 

 Dr. Otto Torell, &c. &c. 



Portion of Orlhoceras, "Worthin, Shropshire. Presented by R. Jasper More, Esq. 



Six specimens of Waldheimia pseudn-jurensis, m\(\. Q'x^m.^les of twelve species of 5ra- 

 '•hiopoda from the Lower Greensand, Upware on the Cam (figured and described in the 

 " Geological Magazine," 1868, vol. v. p. 399, plates xvili. and xix). Presented by John 

 Francis Walker, Esq. M.A., l\G.S. 



Examples of Astarte clegans, from the Oolite of Northampton. Presented by Samuel 

 Sharp, Esq., f.g.s. 



One hundred Fossil Shells and Corals from the Crag Noir of Antwerp. Presented by 

 the Chevalier Le Hon. 



Palpus of Pterygotus anglicus, from the Old Red Sandstone, Forfarshire. Presented 

 by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., &c. &c. 



The figured specimen of Goniaster uncntiis, from the Upper Chalk, Kent (DIxon'a 

 *' Geology of Sussex," T. xxlii. fig. 14). Presented by Professor Tennant, F.G.S. 



Ezogyra sinuata from the Lower Greensand, Maidstone, Kent. Presented by John 

 Fradgley, Esq. 



Specimens of Orthis Edge/liana from the Wenlock Shale, Garcoed, near Usk. Pre- 

 sented by the Rev. E. Wyatt-Edgeli. 



II. By Purchase. — A. Fossil remains belonging to the Vertebrate Classes. 

 Mamriialia : — Two molar teeth of Mammoth {^Elephas primigenius) from the Alluvial 



deposit of the Isle of Dogs. 



Bones of Equus, Bos, and Felis spelcta, from the Pleistocene deposit of Crayford, Kent. 



The almost entire skeleton of the Lagomys Vicinoniensis from the Brown Coal of Bonn. 



A fine molar tooth of Dinotlierium from the Miocene of the Haute Garonne, France. 



Casts of the molar teeth of the upper and lower jaws of Tapirus arvernensis, from the 

 Pliocene of Auvergne ; and casts of characteristic parts of the following animals : — Of 

 Meguhnyx Jejfersoni, Harlan, from the Pleistocene deposit of Henderson, Kentucky ; 

 of Bootherium hombifrons, from Big-bone-Lick, Kentucky, U.S.; of the lower jaw of 

 Eutelodon magniun, Agassiz ; oi Lophiochcerua splendens, and Dinocyon Thenardi, from the 

 Lower Miocene of the South of France ; of Pcebrotherium Wilsoni, Leidy, and Anchi- 

 therium Bairdii, Leidy, from the Lower Miocene, Nebraska Territory, U.S. of North 

 America ; of the Halitherium Schinzii from the Miocene of Flonhelm. 



Reptilia : — Crocodilus Rahtii, Coluber atavus, Rana Meriana, and Pulaobatrachus Gold- 

 fussi, all from the Brown Coal (Miocene) of Rott, near Bonn, on the Rhine. 



A nearly entire carapace and portion of sternum of Arthrosternum, from the Miocene 

 of Aix, in Provence. 



A new species of Platemys, and a skull and jaw of Crocodile, from the Purbeck beds of 

 Swanage, Dorset. 



Teeth of Pliosaurus, Kimmeridge Clay, Dorset. 



Two heads of Ichthyosauri, from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset. 



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