ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 2g 



" Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum." Vol. I., Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of 

 prey. By R. Bovvdler Sharpe. 8vo. (pp. 480, with 14 coloured plates). 



In these Catalogues all the specimens which were in the collection at the date of their 

 publication, are numerated, later additions being entered in an interleaved copy for the 

 use of students, so that every person who Avishes to consult the collection is enable dto 

 select and call for the sjjecimens he requires. 



V . — Visitors and btuaents. 



Three thousand three hundred and six students who have visited this Department with 

 the object of consulting the various portions of the collections, have been assisted and 



Albert Gunlher. 



Department of Geology. 



Arrangement. 



In Room I. The additions made to the Plant remains during the year have been 

 incorporated with the collection in drawers. Some additional labels, prepared for the 

 Fossil Plants in the Wall-cases, have been introduced. 



In Room II. A collection of Welsh Silurian fossils has been named and registered 

 and placed in drawers under Table-cases. 



In this room have also been placed a series of Nummulitic fossils, from near Carlo, col- 

 lected by Professer Owen, C.B., with a similar collection, made at the same spot, by 

 John Milne, Esq., F.G.S. ; also a small collection from the Sinaitic Peninsula. 



The specimens from the Oolite of Leckhampton, obtained by William Jenkins, are 

 named and placed in drawers in this room. 



The Fish-remains in Wall-case of Room II. have been cleaned and re-arranged. 



A considerable number of Fish remains from the Coal Measures have been developed 

 by the mason, mounted on tablets, and arranged in drawers in this room. 



In Room III. A partial re-arrangement of the Dinosaurian Reptiles has been made, 

 and additional specimens have been incorporated in Wall-cases 8 and 9. 



The remains of the Ruminant Mammalia in Wall-case 7 have been re-arranged. 



The Bird remains in Wall-case No. 1 1 have been cleaned and re-arranged. 



The Sowerby collection of MoUusca has been cleaned and re-arranged in drawers in 

 this room. 



In Room IV. Several additions have been made to the fine series of Fossil Oxen, 

 exhibited in and upon Wall-case No. 7. 



A series of INTarsupial Quadruped remains, described by Professor Owen in the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions, has been mounted, labelled, and exhibited in a Table-case in this 

 room. 



The smaller detached bones of Ichthyosaurian Reptiles have been collected together, 

 and arranged in drawers in Room IV., as have also the unexhibited Bird remains. 



In Room V. By a modification of the arrangement of the Ammonitidas in this 

 room, space has been gained in the Table-cases to display a set of remarkable Crinoids, 

 from the Carboniferous Limestone series of Burlington, Iowa, chiefly obtained by Mr. 

 C. Wachsmuth, of Burlington, and the remainder by the late M. Saemann, of Paris. Also 

 a smaller series from Indiana. 



Various additions have been made to the Cephalopoda, exhibited in this room. 



A large number of Chalk Fossils have been registered and labelled, and placed in 

 drawers beneath the Table-cases in Room V. 



The fine and nearly perfect skull, with a lower jaw, of Rhinoceros leptorldnus, Owen, 

 from the Pleistocene Freshwater Deposit at Ilford, Essex (part of the Brady collection of 

 Fossil Mammalia), with other specimens, have been added to the Wall-cases in this 

 room. 



In Room VI. Many of the specimens from the Bruniquel Cave, South of Francej 

 have been mounted on tablets and labelled, and the whole collection has been cleaned 

 and re- arranged. 



The Mammalian remains from the Caves of Brazil have been re-arranged. 



Additions have been made to the exhibited series of Crag MoUusca in this room. 



A large series of Crag fossils have been named and registered, and placed in drawers 

 under the Table-cases here ; also a series of fossil shells, from the Pliocene Tertiary of 

 Turin. 



. The Etheridge Oolitic collection is labelled and arranged, in drawers here, and likewise 

 the TesEon collection of Oolitic Echinodermata. 



A series of Zechstein fossils from Gera, N. E. Gei'many, has been named, registered, 

 and arranged in drawers under Table-cases. 



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