32 ACCOUNTS, &C., OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



I[. By Purchase. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A very extensive collection of Pleistocene Mammalian remains from 

 the Fluviatile deposit of " Brick earth " in the Valley of the Thames at Ilford, Essex, 

 being the entire Museum of Sir Antonio Brady, Knt., J.P., F.G.s., and consisting of 

 upwards of 900 specimens. They comprise portions of the skeletons of the following 

 animals: — The Fossil Lion {Felis spelcca, Goldfuss), Fox {Canis vulp'es, Briss.), and a 

 species of Bear, together with Elephant, Rhinoceros, Horse, Hippopotamus, Deer, 

 Bison, and Ox remains. 



Of Elephant remains there are nearly 300 specimens, including tusks, molar teeth, 

 portions of skulls and lower jaws, and other parts of the skeleton. Some few of these are 

 referable to the Elephas antiquus, Falconer ; the remainder appertain to the Elephas 

 jnimi genius, or Mammoth ; a series of great scientific interest, since it comprises teeth, 

 jaws, limb-bones, and other parts, of a large number of individuals showing the conditions 

 of these parts at the different ages of the animal, from the extremely young Mammoth, 

 to very aged individuals. 



The Uhinoceros remains appertain to three species, namely. Rhinoceros leptorhinus, 

 Owen, represented by a skull and lower jaw (figured in the Geological Magazine 

 for September 1874), and numerous other parts ; the Rhinoceros megarh'mus, and the 

 R. tichorhinus. The Equns fossilis, of Meyer, is well represented by numerous teeth and 

 bones. Amongst the ruminant Mammalia is a considerable portion of the skull, with the 

 horns complete, of a full-grown Bison ; numerous remains of a gigantic species of Ox 

 {Boi giganteus, Owen MSS.), including a nearly perfect skull with the horns. Tlie Deer 

 remains are referred to two species, the Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus) being one of them ; 

 besides which there are parts of the Irish Elk {Meqaceros hibernicus^. 



The value of this collection is much enhanced by aa excellent catalogue of its contents 

 Avhich accompanies it. This Catalogue was prepared for Sir Antonio Brady by Mr. 

 William Davies, and has been perfected by an "introduction " by Sir Antonio Brady. 



A second important series of British Mammalian remains, the Collection of Mr. J. J. 

 Owles of Great Yarmouth. The specimens were procured by the " Trawlers " on the 

 East Coast, and esj^ecially off the Dogger Bank, and are, most of them, in a good state of 

 preservation. In this Collection is a nearly perfect skull of the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, 

 ■apparently unique as a British example ; besides which are numerous Elephant remains, 

 including some well-preserved tusks, bones, teeth, &c., and remains of Horse, Ox, Stags, 

 Irish Elk, Reindeer, Hyrena, Wolf, Walrus, Beaver, &c. 



A skull of a Bison (imperfect), and jaws of other ruminants, from the Pleistocene of 

 Erith. ' » 



A molar tooth of a Mastodon from the Red Crag, Suffolk ; together with molar teeth 

 of Elephas, Sus, Bos, and Cervus ; a tooth of Phyieter ; tooth of Balcenodon and 1 1 other 

 Mammalian remains from the Suffolk Crag. 



Tusk of Trichecodon Huxleyi, Lankester. The specimen figured and described in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc. 1865, Vol XXL, p. 226, ph 10. 



Three remains of Anoplotherium, and a jaw of Palceotherium medium, from the Eocene, 

 of Montmatre, Paris. 



Two Mammalian bones from the Eocene, Isle of Wight. 



Lower jaw of Spalacotherium tricuspidens, Owen, from the Purbeck, Swanage, Dorset. 

 The specimen figured and described in the Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc. Vol. X. 

 p. 426. 



(2.) Aves. — An almost complete skeleton of the largest of the extinct birds of New 

 Zealand {Dinornis maximus, Owen), standing nine feet in height; obtained (in exchange 

 for a cast of the Megatheiium), from the Museum of Christchurch, Canterbury, New 

 Zealand. 



(3.) Reptilia. — A Fossil Turtle, from the London Clay, Isle of Sheppey. 

 A leo--bone, two vertebrae, and three other bones of Iguanodon from the Greensand 

 and Wealden, Isle of Wight. 



Bones of Scelidosaurus, from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



A Saurian bone, from the Muschelkalk of Baireuth. 



Eight Reptilian remains, from the Coal Measures, Newsham, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



(4.) Pisces. — Fourteen fish-remains from the Suffolk Crag. 



A slab with fish-remains, from the Lebanon. 



A Lepidotus, from the Purbeck, Swanage, Dorset. 



Thirty fish-remains, from the Kimmeridge Clay, near Weymouth, 



Twenty fish-remains, from the Coal Measures, Newsham and Airdrle, including the 

 united series of cranial plates of Cteuodus figured and described in Barkas' Manual of 

 Coal Measure Paleontology, p. 113 ; Atlas, pi. X., fig. 244. 



11. By Purchase. — B. Invertebrata. 



1 Crustacean from the Red Crag of Boyton. 



1 Hoploparia Suxbyi from the Greensand of the Isle of Wight. 



1 Bellinurus from Coal Measures, Dudley. 



15 Trilobites from the Wenlock Shale, Dudley. 



32 Trilobites 



