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removal of the large slab containing the remains of the Swanagc Crocodile, wliich has 

 since been glazed, and is now placed upon the top of the Wall-case, within which it was 

 formerly exhibited. 



The specimens of the various classes of the Vertehratn acquired durino- the year have 

 all been registered and incorporated with the general collection. 



The entire series of the Fossil Sponges, and allied animals {Amorphozoa), not at pre- 

 sent exhibited in the glazed cases in the Gallery, have been collected too-ether and 

 arranged in a series of drawers in Room V. 



The " Toulmin-Smith Collection" of Cretaceous Sponges {Ventriculidcc, &c.) have been 

 also arranged, registered, labelled, and placed in glazed drawers, beneath the Table-cases 

 in Room V. 



The Fossil Corals have been partly worked out, and the whole series collected 

 together and placed, stratigraphically, in a suite of 80 drawers, in the Coral Recess in the 

 New Room. 



The Etheridge Collection has been partly arranged, and occupies a series of drawers 

 beneath the Table -cases in Room VL 



Tl)e second collection of Silurian Fossils, obtained from Mr. John Gray, of Hagley, 

 has been incorporated with the Silurian series of Invertcbrata. 



Exhibition space has been gained by introducing in the Window-recesses of Room V. 

 four small glazed cases, two of which will be appropriated to Fossil Corals, and two to the 

 Fossil Asteriada. 



Additional Oolitic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Mollusca have been incorporated in the 

 general collection in Rooms V. and VI. 



A fine slab, covered with the iridescent shells of Ammonites planorbis, from, the Lias of 

 Watchet, Somerset, has been glazed and placed upon the top of the Pier-case, No. 3, in 

 the Sixth Room. 



Specimens Registered during the year : — 



Invertebrata ; 



Plants 19 



Sponges and Foraminifera - - - - 1,065 



Corals ----__- 775 



Echinodermata - - - - - -439 



Annelida ------- 8 



Articulata ------- 248 



Polyzoa -------20 



Mollusca ------- 3,887 



Vertebrata 



6,461 



Pisces --_--_- 282 



Reptilia - - - - - - -158 



Aves --------25 



Mammalia ------- 300 



765 



Total - - - - 7,226 



Geo. R. Waterhouse, 



Department of Mineralogy. 



During the year 1869, the additions to the Collection have amounted to 885 speci- 

 mens, which have been registered and incorporated. 



Among the more I'emarkable of these acquisitions are the great specimen of Ava Rubellite 

 presented by C. S. J. L. Guthrie, Esq. ; the nugget of Platinum presented by H. I, H. the 

 Grand Duke of Leuchtenberg ; the suite of specimens illustrating the gold district of 

 N. Wales ; and a fine Beryl, from Mursinsk. Sixteen species new to the collection have 

 also been added during the year. 



Glazed fronts and sides have been supplied to two of the cases, and these and two 

 others have been fitted for the exhibition of some of the larger specimens of Sulphur and 

 the Sulphides, the Carbonates, the Beryls and Felspars, and of hydrated Silicates, which 

 are now arranged in them. 



A room in the basement floor has been cleared and thoroughly cleaned, and the cabinets 

 in it prepared for the temporary reception of the various rock specimens in the collection 

 which are in the course of being examined, described, and arranged. 



The arrangement of the Minerals consigned to the drawers of the reserve and duplicate 

 portions of the Collection has also progressed pari passu with the inti'oduction of new 

 glazed drawers. 



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