ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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Department of Geology. 



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



I. By Donation.— A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia.- -Several specimens of Diprotodon australis, Nototherium Mitchel/i, 

 Macropus, and other Marsupial remains (including the portion of a lower jaw of 

 Nototherium Mitchelli, figured by Prof. Owen in the Phil. Mag. 1872, pi. x. fio-. 8), from 

 Queensland, Australia. Presented by Dr. George Bennett, fl.s. 



The right ramus of mandible of a young individual of Nototherium Mitchelli Owen 

 figured and described in the Phil Trnns. 1872, p. 58, pi. vi., figs. 1-5, from Darling 

 Downs, Queensland, Australia. Presented by Prof. Owen, f.r.s., &c. 



Remains oi Scelidotherium, ijhjplodnn ; and Mijopotherium Bravardi from the Pampas 

 formation, Buenos Ayres. Presented by Dn. Sr. Fontaua. 



A portion of the left maxilla, having three premolar teeth in situ, of Lophiodon, from 

 the Valley of the Aveyron, South of France. Presented by Edward Packard, Esq. 



Tusk and molars of JElephas primigenius, from Fenny Stratford. Presented by Sir 

 Philip Duncombe, Bart. 



(2.) Aves. — Impression of foot of Bi/iornis, in friable sandstone from the valley of the 

 Turanganni River, PoA'erty Bay, N. Island, New Zealand. Presented by T. H. 

 Cockburn Hood, Esq., F.G.S. 



(3.) Eeptilia.— Reptilian remains from Triassic(?) deposits in South Africa, collected by 

 Dr. W. G. Atherstone, f.g.s., and T. Bain, Esq., during their geological tour throuo-h 

 the districts of Prince Albert and Beaufort West. 



In the collection are parts of the skeleton of a very large undescribed extinct reptile. 

 These specimens were undeveloped from the matrix and in many fragments ; each piece 

 has been carefully worked out from the hard rock, and the several fragments joined 

 together so as to show in many cases the complete bones of this strange reptile. They 

 form a most valuable addition to the Museum series. Presented by Dr. W. G. Ather- 

 stone, F.G.S. 



(4.) Pisces. — The selected Vertebrate remains from the Museum of the late Sir Roderick 

 Impey Murchison, Bart., f.r.s.. Trustee Brit. Mus. (about 80 in number), consisting chiefly 

 of Fossil Fishes, and including several fine teeth of Lamnodus, scales of Holoptychius, 

 Psammosteus arenatus, &c., from the Devonian of Printschka and other localities in 

 Russia. Some fine examples of the palatal teeth, in situ, of Janassa biluminosa and 

 Strophodus arcuutus, and also good specimens of the rare Coelacanthus Hassice, from the 

 Permian deposits of Richelsdorf. 



A fine head of yEchmodus Leachii, Agassiz, being one of the type specimens of this 

 species, figured and described in Agassiz's " Rech. Poiss. Foss.," Tome ii., pt. 2, p. 203, 

 Tab. 23rd., figs. 1-6, from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis. 



Specimens of Spheno/epis squamosseus, Ag., Sjnerdis miniUus, Libras cephalotes, Cottus 

 hrevis, and Mugil pinceps, from the Tertiary deposits of Aix in Provence ; of Leuciscus 

 leptus from an Infusorial deposit at Habichtswald, and of Leuciscus pusi/lus, Colitis 

 cenlrochlr, C. cephalotes, together with a species of lihodeus, from Oeningen. Presented 

 by Kenneth Murchison, Esq. 



Teeth of Ccntrodus obllquus, Ctenudus elegans, and a mandible of Acanthudopds, from 

 the Coal Measures, Newcastle. Presented by T. P. Barkas, Esq., F.G.S. 



Impression and counterpart of an undescribed species of Zunclus (?) from the Tertiary 

 Limestone of Monte Bolca. Presented by F. G. Beckford, Esq. 



I. By Donation. — B. Invertebrata. 



Casts of Evphoberia Brownii, from the Coal Measures of Glasgow, figured and described 

 in the Geol. M,ag. 1871, vol. viii., p. 97, pi. iii., fig. 6 ; and of Eophiynus Frestvicii, 

 figured and described in the same work, 1871, vol. viii., p. 385, pi. ix. ; from the Coal 

 Measures, Dudley. Presented by Henry Woodward, r G.s. 



A specimen of Aptychopsis Lapworthi, H.W., from the U. Silurian of Hawick, and of 

 a new species of Croswpodia from the same locality. Presented by Alexander Michie, Esq. 



A large series of Invertebrate Fossils, chiefly of Devonian and Silurian age, from 

 Norway, and from the Baltic Provinces and Russia, together with an extensive series of 

 selected fossils from France, Switzerland, and Gei-many ; part of the collection of the late 

 Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart, deceased (Trustee, Brit. Mus.) Presented by Kenneth 

 Murchison, Esq. 



A Fossil Unio from Queensland, Australia. Presented by H. E. H. the Duke of 

 Edinburgh, K.G. 



Two Tertiary Fossils from Japan. Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq., F.S.A., &c. 



Twenty-four Greensand Fossils, from Newton Abbot, Devonshire. Presented by W. 

 Vicary, Esq., F.G.S. 



Part of a specimen of a variety of Parkeria, from the Lower Cretaceous formation. 

 Presented by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, f.r.s. 



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