ACCOUNTS &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Sp 



A large proportion of the types of Crustacea figured in Professor Bell's Monograph 

 on the London Clay Crustacea (Pal. Soc. Mon. 1858). 



Many of the types of Nautilidoe, as Aturia zic-zac, Nautilus ParMnsoni, N. ^owerbu, 

 and of the prosobranchiate Mollusca, figured and described by Mr. Edwards in the 

 PalfEoritographieal Society's Monograidis, and of the Cypraida:, figured in the Geological 

 Magazine 1865, vol. ii., from the London Clay of Highgate. 



If the specimens, since presented, be added to those jjurchascd, this Collection com- 

 prises upwards of 4,000 sjiecimons. 



From the Lias of Lyme Regis has been obtained a small but nearly complete 

 Ichthyosaurus, imd also the original specimen of Isclu/odus orthorhinus, described and 

 figured by Sir P. Egerton, Bart., in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii. pi. 13. 



Part of the mandible of a Pterodactyle, from the Gault of Folkestone. 



An interesting series of bones and teeth, of Reptiles and Fishes, from the Klmmeridge 

 Clay, Weymouth. 



Remains of the Beaver, from the Fens of Cambridgeshire. 



Molar of Musli)don liorsoni, from the Red Crag, Sutton. 



Of Plant-remains. — Fifty dicotyledonous leases, from the Lower Eocene plant-bed, 

 Bournemouth. 



Of Protozoa. — Cast of Amurplwspongia; 16 Cretaceous Sponges, from Bromley, 

 Faringdon, &c. 



Of Corals. — 12 Corals from Madeira, 4 Corals from the Chalk of Bromley, 2 Corals 

 from the U. Silurian, Dudley. 



Of Mollusca. — A series of Shells from the Valley of the Amazons, 20 Madelran Helices, 

 84 specimens from the Mayeuce Basin, 280 Tertiary Mollusca, from Tuscany, &c. ; 140 

 from the South of France, 80 Crag Mollusca, 80 Shells from the Oligocene of Latdorf ; 

 (also the Fossil Shells of the Wetherell Collection. already referred to.) 



One hundred and fifty Cretaceous Mollusca from Cambridge, Bromley, Folkestone, 

 &c. ; eight Ammonites from 'Kqvt Granada (also the Fossil Shells contained in the Van 

 Breda Collection already referred to). 



A gigantic Ammonites serpentinus, from the Lias, near Rugby. Five detached oper- 

 cula of Ammonites, from the Klmmeridge Clay of Ely ; 24 Ammonites, Pleurotomaria, 

 &c., from the Inferior Oolite, Petherton. A series of Casts of Mollusca, Corals, &c., in 

 the Ironstone, from the neighbourhood of Northampton ; described in the Quart, Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. xxvl. p. 35-1. 



One hundred and thirty Carboniferous Limestone Fossils from Ireland ; 1 1 Lower 

 Silurian Fossils from North Wales. 



Of Echinodermata. — One Astropecten from the London Clay, Sheppey; 26 Chalk 

 Echinodermata from Bromley; 12 Crinolds from the Carboniferous Limestone of North 

 America ; specimens of Poteriocrinus and Loxocrinus, from the Devonian of Dillen- 

 bourg. 



From the Collection of Mr. S. Allport, p.g.s., some exceedingly fine specimens from 

 the Upper Silurian of Dudley and Malvern, including, — 



Fifty-three Crinolds, sixteen Cystldeans, two Starfishes. 



or Trilobites and other Crustacea, from Mr. Allport's Collection, 115 U. Silurian 

 Trilobites: one Limulus from Dudley Coalfield. From Mr. G. Davies, 62 Lower 

 Silurian Trilobites, from North Wales (including about twenty figured by Mr. Salter in 

 the Palaeontographlcal Society's Monograph on Trilobites, Part ill., 1866.) 



Thirteen Caradoc Trilobites; one Paiadoxides, Bohemia; one Dikelocephalus (cast) 

 from North America. 



One Palccocorystes from the Gault and one XaiitJiopsis from the London Clay (In addi- 

 tion to the fine series of London Clay Crustacea in Mr. Wethercll's Collection already 

 referred to). 



Works of the Department. 



I. FossV Plants. — Only a small addition has been made to the series of Plant 

 jxhibited in this room ; but Mr. Hiern, Professor Dyer and Mr. Carruthers 



Room 

 remains exhibited 

 have examined and determined several new forms belonging to the Collection. 



Room II. FosM Fishes. — Considerable additions have been made to the wall and 

 table-cases in this room, chiefly derived from the fine Collection of CEningen, ]\laes- 

 trlcht, and Solenhofen Fishes obtained in the Van Breda Collection. The introduction of 

 these acquisitions has involved considerable modifications in the arrangement of the wall- 

 cases, to admit of their exhibition. 



Room III. In.thls room the Wall-cases 1, 2, and 3, containing the Pterodaetyles, 

 Laeertians, Batrachians, and Chelonians, have been entirely re-arranged. A large 

 number of Chelonia;, previously in the Case 3, have been arranged upon the top of the 

 same case, and by this means a few of the remains of the great Chelone Ilofmunni liave 

 been introduced ; but the Carapace of this grand Maestricht fossil remains still in the 

 basement. In Case 2, has been placed the skulls [and jaws of Bebdou Kapjji and B. 

 Plieningeri, from the Keuper of Stuttgardt ; the remains of Protosaurus Speiieri, from 

 the Permian; Audrias Scheuchzeri, CEningeu ; A. Tschudi i nnd Ucliarchon funilhitxts, 

 from the Brown Coal formation, near Bonn ; and remains of Mosasaurus Hofmanni, from 



l6^. D 3 Maestricht. 



