30 ACCOUNTS, kc..., OF THE BRITISH MaSEUIvI. 



Supplemental Room. Numerous additions have been made to the series of Ammonites^ 

 Crinoids, and Crustacea, in the Pier and Wall-cases of this room ; and also to the series 

 of fossils stratigraphically arranged. 



The Tesson collection of Oolitic Mollusca, from Normandy, has been labelled, 

 registered, and arranged in drawers in this room. 



The five cabinets containing the fine series of the Edwards Eocene Tertiary shells, 

 have been completely labelled and arranged, so as to be accessible to students, although 

 not exhibited. 



A series of NummulIuEe, from Hungary, has been prepared for exhibition. 



Basement Rooms. The Gigantic Dinosaurian Reptile from Swindon, presented 

 (through Mr. Shopland) by the directors of the Swindon Brick and Tile Works, has 

 been cleared from the enveloping stone, and is now prepared for mounting in a frame. 



The work of developing and restoring the various parts of this enormous skeleton, 

 owing to the unequal density of the rock (consisting of septaria with traversing veins of 

 stalagmite), and the extremely brittle nature, both of the rock and the bones, has furnished 

 a task requiring the greatest amount of skill and labour ever witnessed in the Depart- 

 ment, and has been most successfully performed. 



The extensive collection of Mammalian remains, obtained from Sir Antonio Brady, has 

 been arranged in accordance with a printed Catalogue, in a room specially prepared for 

 its reception ; shelves and cases having been fitted up for the purpose. (Some of the 

 more striking objects have been exhibited in Rooms IV. and V.) 



Specimens registered In 1874 : — 



Mammalia ------- 1,256 



Aves -------- 17 



Reptilla 143 



Pisces 189 



Total Vertebrata - - - - 1,605 



Articulata - - - - - - 394 



Annulosa -------14 



Echinodermata ------ 2,382 



Zoophyta (Zoantharia) - - - - 57 



Polyzoa --_.--- 85 



Mollusca ------- 3,947 



Protozoa and Rhizopoda - - - - 369 



Total Invertebrata - - 7,248 



PlantJE - - - -.- - -- - 67 



Total - - - - 8,920 

 The number of visits from Students during the past year was 508. 



Acquisitions. 

 The principal additions to the Department during the pa;st year are as follows : — 



I. By Donation. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A plaster cast of the skull of Pcelaolemur Betillei, Delf. Figured 

 and described in the Actes Soc. Linn, de Bordeaux, vol. 29. 1873, pi. 5. The original 

 specimen is from the Quaternary Phosphates of Lime, In the Department of Lot, France. 

 Presented by Monsieur Delfortrie. 



Four molar teeth of a Bovine animal, found in gravel at an elevation of 5,600 feet 

 above the sea, in New Grrenada, S. America. Presented by H. J. C- Williams, Esq. 



Skull of a Mammal {Prorastomus sireno'ides, Owen), from the Island of Jamaica. The 

 specimen figured and described In the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,' 

 vol. xi., 1855, p. 541, pi. 15. Presented by Professor Owen, f.r.s., f.g.s., &c. 



Cast of the skull of Halitherium Canhami, Flower, from the Suflfolk Crag. Described 

 and figured In the Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc, vol. xxx., p. 1, pi. 1, figs. 1 to 5. 

 Presented by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 



A series of 35 specimens of Marsupial remains, including characierlstic parts of 

 Diprotodon and Nototherium, together with various species of Kangaroos ; from Queens- 

 land, Australia. Presented by Dr. George Bennett, r.L.s., &c. 



A radius, and part of a lower jaw of Diprotodon Australis, Owen ; from the Newer 

 Tertiary deposits. New South Wales. Presented by W. L. H. Gipps, Esq. 



Right maxillary bone, and teeth of a full grown Sthenurus Atlas, Owen ; from South 

 Australia. Specimens figured and described by Professor Owen, in the Philosophical 

 Transactions, 1873, vol. 164, pi, 24, figs. 4 to 6. Presented by Professor Owen, f.r.s., &c. 



Considerable 



