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A large series of New Zealand Shells ; presented by J. C. Traill, Esq. 



A series of Shells from South America ; presented by Captain and Mrs. Burton. 



A large series of Zoophytes, &c., from Panama, &c. 



A series of Annelides, from various parts of the world. 



A series of Shells, Ascidians, Holothurite, &c.; presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty. 



A collection of Shells from the Seychelles Islands. 



A series of Echinoderms, Holothuria;, Annelides, &c., from the Red Sea ; presented bv 

 R. McAndrew, Esq. •' 



A series of Goi'gonias, &c., from Algeria. 



Two collections of Holothuriae. 



J. E. Gray. 



Department op Geology. 



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



I. By Donation. — A series of 300 Tertiary Leaves, from Greenland, collected by 

 E. Whymper, Esq. Presented by Robert H. Scott, Esq., m.a. 



Fossils collected during the Abyssinian campaign, chiefly of Oolitic age. Presented 

 by W. T. Blanford, Esq., f.g.s. 



Remains of Megatherium, Mylodon, &c., from the Pedras Altus District, Rio Grande 

 du Sul, Brazil. Presented by Thomas J. Tennent, Esq. 



Humerus of Ischurosaurus Maiiselii, Hulke, and a further portion of the lower jaw of 

 Steneosaurus, figured and described in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 vol. XXV. p. 386, pi. 16 ; also an undescribed fossil fish ; all from the Kimmeridge Clay of 

 Dorset. Presented by J. C. Mansel, Esq. f.g.s. 



Cast of Cervical vertebrae of Palaocceius Sedgwickii, from the Boulder-clay, near Ely. 

 Presented by the Rev. Prof. Sedgwick, m.a. 



Cast of the femur and tibia of Epyornis maximus. Presented by the Museum of the 

 Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 



II. By Purchase. — A. Fossils belonging to the Vertebrate Classes. 



Mammalia : — Upwards of two hundred and fifty mammalian remains from the Fresh- 

 water deposits of the valley of the Lea, near Walthamstow, Essex, comprising human 

 remains ; also the skulls and bones of the Wolf, Fox, Beaver, Horse, Wild-boar, Red Deer, 

 Roebuck, Fallow Deer, Reindeer, Elk, Goat, three species of Oxen {^Bos primigenius, 

 B. longifroiis, B.frontosus); and, from the lower beds of the same locality, Elephas primi- 

 genius. Bos, &c. 



Three casts of Dinotherium, from the Miocene of Eppelsheim. 



Aves : — A series of the bones of Dinornis, from New Zealand collected by Dr. Julius 

 Haast. Bird-remains from the Cambridge Greensand. 



Reptilia : — A series of the bones of Pterodactyles, from the Upper Greensand of Cam- 

 bridge ; also four bones from the Kimmeridge Clay of W^eymouth, Dorset . 



The entire caudal series of vertebrae of Dimorphodon macronyx, Buckland, from the 

 Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorset. This unique specimen has been figured and described 

 by Professor Owen in his Monograph on the Secondary Reptiles of Great Britain, 

 published by the Palaeontographical Society, February 1870. 



Part of the head of an Ichthyosaurus, and twenty-five other Saurian remains, from the 

 Chalk and Greensand of England. 



One hundred and twenty-nine Saurian remains, consisting of teeth, bones, &c., from the 

 Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth. 



Bones of Scelidosaurus Harrisoni and lower jaw and paddles oi Ichthyosaurus, from the 

 Lias of Lyme Regis. 



Pisces .-—A series of thirty-one Fossil Fishes (most carefully and admirably developed 

 by M. Emile Meyrat), obtained from the Eocene Tertiary Slates of Engi, in Switzerland, 

 (Canton Glarus) of the genera Palaorhyuchum, Anenchelum, Acanthoderma, 8fc. 



A fine specimen of Cheirolepis CumnnngicB ; examples of Acanthodes, C heir acanthus, 

 Diplopterus, Glyptidepis, Ischnacanthus, Osteolepis, and other genera, from the Devonian 

 of Scotland. 



Eighteen specimens of Mes^alichthys, from the Coal Measures of Ardwick. 



Two spines of Hyhodus, and five other fish-remains, from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



An almost perfect jaw of Slrophodus medius, Owen, from the Oolite of Caen, Normandy ; 

 figured and described by Prof. Owen in the Geological Magazine, 1869, vol. vi. p. 193, 

 plate vii. 



Sixty-eight remains of Fishes from the Kimmeridge Clay, near Weymouth, Dorset, 

 Including teeth &c., of Chimera, Gyrodus, spines and teeth of Hyhodus, teeth of Lepidotas, 

 Pycnodus, Strophodus, &c. 



Fourteen Otolithes from the Gault, Folkestone, Beryx radians, from t!\e Lower 

 Chalk, &c. 



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