ACCOUNTS, k.C. 5 OF THE ERITISII MC'SEUM. 



Cast of Slellaster Sharpii, Wright, from the Oolitic Ironstone, near Northampton. 

 Presented by Samuel Sharp, Esq., r.s.A., r.G.s. 



Coral, &c., from Kouncl Island, near Mauritius. Presented by Sir Henry Barkly, 



K.C.B. 



II. By Purchase. — A perfect skeleton of the gigantic Irish Deer {Mcgaceros Hiber 

 nicus), from Ireland (a female example). 



A series of fossil teeth dug out of the stalagmitic floor of a cavern in the neighbourhood 

 of the City of Ching-King-Foo, 1,500 miles up the river Yang-tsze, China. Several of 

 these teeth are the types of the figures and descriptions, by Prof. Owen, in the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xxvi. They comprise the following genera and 

 species; Stegodon orientalis, Owen; Tapirus sinensis, Ow. ; Chalicotherium sinense, Ow.; 

 Rhinoceros sinensis, Ow., and Hy&na sinensis, Ow. 



Remains of Hyana, Elephns, Rhinoceros, Sus, Bos, and Cervus, from Kirkdale Cavern. 



An ulna of JElephas primigenius, from Peckham in Surrey. 



A tooth of a Mastodon, from the Crag at Woodbridge, in Suffolk ; and also a tooth of 

 Rhinoceros, from the saine place. 



Two Eggs of a gigantic extinct bird {JEpyornis maiimus), from Madagascar. The 

 largest of these eggs measures 36 inches in circumference in the long axis, and 30 inches 

 in the short axis. 



A fine series of Batrachian and Fish remains, from the Coalbeds of Jarrow Colliery, 

 CO. Kilkenny, Ireland. 



Batrachian remains, from the Coal Measures of Airdrie, Scotland. 



A small Ichthyosaurus communis ; and dermal and other bones of Scelidosaurus, from 

 the Lias of Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire. 



Sixty Saurian remains, consisting of teeth and bones of PUosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and 

 Pterodaciylus, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth. 



One hundred and nine specimens of teeth and bones of Saurians refei'able to Iguanodon, 

 Dakosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, and Plesiosaurus, from the Coprolite beds of Pottou, Bedford- 

 shire. 



Specimens of Naseui rectifrous, Ag. and Pygosus Coleanus, Ag., from Monte Bolca. 



Jaws of Ditnxiodus, from the Oolite, Isle of Portland. 



Ninety specimens, comprising jaws, teeth, spines, &c., of Ischyodus, Gyrodus, Lepidotus, 

 Ditaxiodus, Aspidorhynchus, together with remains of undescribed fishes, from the Kim- 

 meridge Clay of Weymouth. 



Remains of Homonotus dorsalis, Beryx, Istius, Osmeru^, Ptychodus, Otodus, and Lamna, 

 from the Cretaceous deposits of England and Westphalia. 



Several fine specimens of J^urynut us, in which the jaws, with the teeth, are well pre- 

 served, from the Coal Measures, Anstruther ; and several specimens of Rhizodopsis, 

 Calacanthus and Ctenoptychius, &c,, from the Coalfields of Staffordshire. 



A large and fine series of Ichthyodorulites, and of palatal teeth of Orodus, Deltodus, 

 Sandalodus (?), Cochliodus, Cladodus, Chomatodus, Pccci/odus, &c., from the Carboniferous 

 Limestone of Oreton, Salop. 



A series of Fish remains, from the Devonian black flags of Caithness, comprising fine 

 specimens of TristiclLoptei'us alatiis. Eg., Coccosteus pusil/us, C. decipiens, and C. cuspidatus, 

 Gyropty chins angustus, G. diplopteroides, Holoptychius Sedgwickii, ik.c. ; also cephalic 

 shields of Zenaspis Sahvcyi, Cephalaspis, Scaphaspis, and Pteraspis, from the Old Red 

 Sandstone of Heightington and Trimpley. 



One hundred and fifty fossil leaves; from the lower Bagshot Series of the Isle of 

 Wight. 



Two figured Cycadean stems from the " Dirt-bed " of the Isle of Portland. 



Two figured specimens of Ulode.ndron Taylori, from the Coal Measures near Edinburgh. 



A Lepidostrobus, from the Coal Measures, Dalkeith. 



A new Fern, from the Coal Measures, Airdrie. 



An Araucarian branch from the Lias of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. 



Ten plant remains, from the Chalk of Aix and Halden. 



Cyclopteris polyinorpha, &c., from the Lower Coal Measures, Glatz, &c. 



A lar^e series of jDlant remains, from the Coal Measures of the Forest of Wyre, 

 Worcestershire. 



Seven plant remains, Araucarites, OdtDitopteris, &c. ; from the liOwer Lias of Lyme 

 Regis, and Grantham. 



Fourteen plant remains, chiefly from Oolitic rocks. 



Pinites macrocephalus, Carr., described by Mr. Carruthers in the Geological Magazine, 

 1866, vol. iii., pi. 20 (the type of Lindley and Hutton's Zamiostrobus macrocephalus. Fossil 

 Flora, vol. ii., p. 117, t. 125) ; from the Lower Eocene, near Deal, Kent. 



187 Devonian and Carboniferous plants, from Scotland. 



Two specimens of Endogenites, from Potton, Bedfordshire. 



Twenty-three sj^onges, from the Chalk of Kent ; and two Rhizopods from the same. 



One sponge, from the Inferior Oolite, Beaminster. 



One hundred and five corals, from the Carboniferous limestone of Bristol, Lanark, &c. 



Specimens of ALveoliles and Acervidaria ; from the Devonian of the Eifel. 



Fifty -three specimens of Goniophyllum pyramidale; from the Upper Silurian (Wenlock 

 shale), Dudley. 



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