26 ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



One London Clay Fish ; twelve Fish-teeth from the Miocene of Malta, and nineteen 

 Shark's-teeth, from the Miocene of Maryland, U. S. 



B. Fossil remains belonging to the Invertebrate Classes. 



Mollusca : — Six hundred and eighty-one Silurian Mollusca, chiefly from Normandy, 

 Bala, Llangollen, Dudley, Malvern, &c. 



Ninety-eight Devonian shells from Newton-Bushel, &c. 



One hundred and twenty-one Carboniferous shells. 



Ten species of Brachiopoda, from the Permian of Gera. 



Upwards of three thousand Liassic and Oolitic Mollusca, including the magnificent 

 series of Inferior Oolite fossils acquired from Mr. Etheridge, from Dundry, Bridport, 

 Lyme, and numerous other well-known localities in the Cotswold and Bristol areas. 



One hundred and forty-one Mollusca, from the Grault of Folkestone, the Upper Green- 

 sand of Cambridge, and the Chalk of Kent, &c. 



Ammonites dimorphus, and five other Ammonites from the Inferior Oolite, Dundry. 



A fine example of Ammonites rostratus, and nine other Ammonites from the Gault of 

 Folkestone, and twenty-six Ammonites from the Upper Greensand of Cambridge. 



Two hundred and thirty-six Mollusca, from the Miocene Tertiary of Maryland. 



One hundred Fossil-shells from the the Tertiary of Biot, Antibes, south of France. 



Three hundred Tertiary shells from Belfast, and 78 Glacial shells from Greenland, 

 Canada, &c. 



Upwards of 200 Mollusca from the Norwich, Red, and Coralline Crags of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, including several figured specimens (figured in the Supplement to Mr. "Wood's 

 Monograph on the Crag Mollusca, now in course of preparation) ; also a series of Stone- 

 dwelling Crag Mollusca in their Crypts, collected and prepared by Mr. Charles- 

 worth, F.G.s. 



Crustacea: — Upwards of 160 specimens of Bivalved Crustacea, belonging to the family 

 of Estheri(E, including the types of a Monograph by Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.G.s., 

 on the Fossil EsthericB, published by the Palseontographical Society in 1862. 



106 Trilobites from Dudley, chiefly from Mr. John Gray's cabinet, including a fine 

 Homalonotus delpJiinocephalus, from Dudley Castle. 



50 Trilobites from Bala, and 30 from the Gres de Mai, Normandy (Lower Silurian). 



49 Crustacea from the Lias, Oolite, Gault, Greensand and Chalk formations. 



Annelida : — 14 Serpulce from the Gault, Greensand, and Chalk of England. 



Ecliinodermata : — 250 Crinoidea from the Wenlock Limestone and Shale, Dudley, the 

 greater part from Mr. Gray's Collection, including the genera Marsupiocrinites, Glypto- 

 crinus, Eucalyptocrinus, Cyathocrinus, Taxocrinus, Ichthyocrinus, Periechocrinus, Dimero- 

 crinus, &c. 



Cast of Eucladia Johnsoni, H. Woodw., from the Upper Silurian, near Dudley. 



A fine slab of Pentacrinus Hiemeri, Konig., from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



Upwards of 200 Oolitic Echinidtz and CidaridcB, from the collection of Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, F.G.s. 



14 Cretaceous Echinoderms, chiefly from the Upper Chalk of Bromley, and 13 

 Starfishes, of the genera Goniaster and Astrogonium, from the same locality. 



37 remains of Bourgetocrinus and Marsupites, from the Kentish Chalk. 



Nine Echinoderms from the Island of Malta. 



Zoophyta : — 104 Silurian Corals, chiefly from Mr. John Gray's Collection, Dudley. 

 175 Oolitic Corals from the Etheridge Collection. 



Amorphozoa : — The chief acquisitions in this class have been obtained from the Museum 

 of the late Mr. Toulmin Smith, of Highgate, who devoted many years to the investiga- 

 tion of the Cretaceous sponges classed as Ventriculidce. : Ventriculites 568, Cephalites 40, 

 Brachiolites 206, Siphonia, and Choanites (silicified sponges, cut and polished) 246, 

 miscellaneous 29 ; in all, 1,089 specimens, including the types figured in Mr. Toulmin 

 Smith's work. 



PlantcB : — Of Plant-remains 28 specimens have been acquired by purchase. 



Works of the Department. 



In Room I. The wall-cases in this Room appropriated to Fossil Plants have 

 been emptied of their contents, and are now being cleaned and refitted previous to their 

 re-arrangement. 



At present the greater part of this collection of Plant-remains has been arranged in 

 drawers beneath the table-cases of Minerals in Rooms I. and II. 



In Room 11. , the Ganoid and Ctenoid Orders of the Fossil Fishes, have been entirely 

 re-arranged, labelled, and cleaned. 



The teeth and other remains of the Fossil Sharks {Squalidcs), arranged in the Half- 

 table Cases along the north side of this room, have been remounted, cleaned, and named, 

 and many specimens have been added. 



In Room III., space has been obtained in Wall-case I., for the exhibition of a more 

 complete series of the extinct flying Reptiles of the secondary Rocks (^Pterosauria), by the 



removal 



