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



Invertehrata ;- 



Protozoa and Ehlzopoda 

 Zoophyta-Zoantharia - 

 Echinodermata - 

 Polyzoa _ - - 

 MoUusca _ - - 

 Annelida - - - 

 Crustacea and Insecta 



Plant Remains ------- 



Total number of Specimens registered 

 The number of visits from Students during the past year was 625 



370 





822 





365 





118 





5,807 





103 





166 







7,751 





197- 



197 



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8,987 



Acquisitions. 

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



I. By Donation. — A. Yertebrata. 



(1.)— Mammalia. — Two portions of jaws o{ Procoptodon Goliah, Owen (described and 

 figured by Professor Owen, in the Trans. R. S. for 1874), from Queensland, Australia; 

 also remains of Nototherium Mitchelli, Thylacoleo carnifex, Phuscolomys, Diprotodon, 

 Sthenurus, Macropus, etc. ; from Darling Downs, Australia. Presented by Di-. George 

 Bennett, f.l.s. 



Remains of Nototherium Phuscolomys and Macropus, from the creeks and tributaries of 

 the Castlereagh River, Kirton, near Mundoran, New South Wales. Presented by 

 W. L. R. Gipps, Esq. 



The type sj^ecimen of Palorchestes Azael, Owen, (figured and described in the Phil. 

 Trans. 1874, p. 797, pi. 81-83); from the Colony of Victoria, Australia; also plaster casts 

 of Procoptodon Rapha, and Procoptodon Goliah. Presented by Professor Owen, c.B., F.R.S. 



A lower molar of the Mammoth, FAephas primigenius, found in digging tlie main sewer 

 in Pall Mall, in 1731 ; also a molar of Elephas antiquus, from the Gravel at Ealing. Pre- 

 sented by the Council of the Society of Antiquaries. 



A natural cast of . the brain of Eotherium (Bgyptiacum, Owen; from Eocene Tertiary 

 Limestone, Mokattam quarries, near Cairo (described and figured by Professor Owen in 

 the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1875, Vol. XXXL, p. 100, pi. 3. Presented by Professor 

 Owen, C.B., F.R.S. 



Bones of oxen, goat, stag, wild-boar, and beaver, from the excavations of the Thames 

 Embankment, near the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. Presented by the Metro- 

 politan Board of Works. 



(2.) Aves. — The skull, and a series of bones of Cnemiornis calcitrans, Owen, from a 

 fissure in a limestone rock near Timaru, South Island, New Zealand. Described and 

 figured by Professor Owen, in Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, voh IX., part 3, PI. 35-39. 



Skull and mandible oi Dinar nis rohustus, Owen, and bones oi Aptornis defossor, Owen. 

 Described and figured by Professor Owen in the Trans. Zool. Soc. 1875, vols. V., VII., 

 and VIII. 



Skulls and various bones of Notornis, Aptornis, Strigops, &c., from New Zealand. 

 Presented by Professor Owen, c.B., f.r.s., &c. 



(3.) Reptilia. — A paddle oi Ichthyosaurus enthekiodon, Hulke ; from the Kimmeridge 

 clay, Kimmeridge, Dorset. Presented by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Esq., r.G.s. 



(4.) Pisces. — A large tooth of Carcharodon megalodon, from the Miocene of Jamaica. 

 Presented by Robert Milligan, Esq. 



I. By Donation. — B. Invertebrata. 



A wing of Libellula Brodiei, from the Upper Lias, Dumbleton, Gloucestershire. 

 Presented by Rev. P. B. Brodie, m.a., f.g.s. 



The type specimen of Harpactocarcinus tumidus, H. Woodw., from the Cretaceo- 

 Tertiary, or " Ototara" group. Woodpecker Bay, Brighton, N.W. Coast, New Zealand. 

 Figured and described by H. Woodward, in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1876, p. 51. 

 pi. vii. Presented by Dr. James Hector, c.M.G. F.R.S., Director of the Government 

 Geological Survey, New Zealand. 



A specimen of Cruziana semiplicata, Salter, from the Middle Cambrian, Nant Francon, 

 Bangor. Presented by Rev. John Peter, f.g.s. 



Twelve examples of Murchisonia turbinata, irova. ^Q Middle Devonian, Chudleigh, 

 Devon. Presented by William Vicary, Esq., F.G.S. 



Specimens 



