ACCOUNTS, Ike, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ^^ 



Specimen of Echinocyamus ovatus, from the Miocene of Malta. Presented by Captain 

 H. W. Fielden, r.n. 



Comarocystites punctatus, Billings, from the Lower Silurian, Ottawa, Canada. Pre- 

 sented by Dr. J. A. Grant, M.p. (Canada), r.G.S. 



Ten examples of Oldhmnia antiqua from the Cumbrian rocks of Bray Head, Ireland. 

 Presented by Bobcrt li. Scott, Esq., m.a., f.r.s. 



•Syriiigopora ramulusa, from the Carboniferous Limestone, Clifton, Bristol. Presented 

 by Swinfen .loi-dan, Esq. 



Four specimens of Farkeria from the Greensand of Cambridge. Presented by J. F. 

 Walker Esq., m.a., f.g.s., &c. 



I. By Dcr.ation. — C. Pl.ANT^:. 



Impressions of leaves of Glossopteris, together with portions of silicified Avood, from the 

 creeks of the Liverpool Range, New South Wales. Presented by W. L, R. Gipps, 

 Esq. _ • 



Section of the silicified trunk of a Coniferous Tree, from the Lower Greensand, 

 Arauri Bluff, South Island, New Zealand. Presented by Dr. James Hector, C.M.G., 

 r.K.s., Director of the Geological Survey, New Zealand. 



II. By Purchase. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A series of teeth and bones of the Mammoth {EUphas primigeniiis). 

 Rhinoceros, Bos, Cervus, Hyoiiia, and Cnnis Vulpes, from Wookey Hole, near Wells, 

 Somerset. Part of the Cunnington Collection. 



Remain 5 of Elephas, Rliinoceros, Bos, Bison, and Cervus, from the Drift, near Chippen- 

 ham, Wilts. 



Bones of Oxen, Reindeer, and Hippopotamns, from the excavation for the Main Sewer 

 at Greenwich. 



A fine series of Mammalian remains from the Red Crag of Suffolk, comprising teeth 

 of Mastodon Arvernensis, 31. Bnrsoni, Rhijioceros Schleiermacheri, Tapirus, Sus, Hippo- 

 therium, and remains of Cervus. The Cetacean remains comprise I'ostra, teeth, ear-bones, 

 and vertebrfE of large size, belonging to the following genera, namely: — Zipkius, 

 Balana, Bala:nodon, and Dclpldnus. 



(2.) Aves. — A nearly complete series of bones of the Great Auk (Alcu i.mpennis), from 

 Funk Island, 32 miles east of Newfoundland. 



(3.) Reptilia — The united carapace and plastron of BleurosI ernon emaryinatum, Owen, 

 from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, Dorset, (the original specimen figured by Prof. 

 Owen in his Brit. Foss. Reptiles; Mon. Piil. Soc, 1853, PI. V. and VI.); part of the 

 Cunnington Collection. 



Remains of Is,uanodoii and other Dinosauria, together with two large vertebrai of an 

 undescribed Reptile (for which Frof. Owen has proposed the generic name of Chondros- 

 teosawus,') from the Wealdcu formation. Brook, Isle of Wight. Lower jaw and paddle- 

 bones oi Fliosaarus rjrandis, fi'om the Kimmeridge Clay, Swindon, Wilts. 



Remains of Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pliosaunis, and Chetonia, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Devizes. A pair of huge dermal spines of a Dinosaurian Reptile {Omo- 

 saurus hastatus, Ow.), from the Kimmeridge Clay, Wootton-Bassett. 



Remains of Steneusuurus and Ichthyosaurus, from the OxfordClay, Wiltshire. Cun- 

 nington Collection. 



Sternal bones of Colymbosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay, Kimmeridge, Dorset. 



(4.) Pisces. — Some new and rare forms of Fossil Fishes have been obtained from the 

 Cretaceous rocks of the Lebanon, including good examples of the following genera and 

 species, namely: — Scyllium, Beryx, Pycnostcrinx, Hhinellus, Lepiotrachelus, Soleno- 

 ynathus, Spaniodon brevis, S. elongatus, and species of Clupea. A specimen of Ophiopsis 

 breviceps, and the head of an undescribed genus of fishes, from the Purbeck Beds, Swanage. 

 Jaws of Ditaxiodus impar, Owen, from the Kimmeridge Clav, Culham, Oxfordshire 

 (figured and described by Prof. Owen in Geol. Mag. 1866, Vol. III., p. 107, pi. IV. 

 and v.). Part of the Cunnington Collection. 



A fine specimen of Lepidotus semiserratus, Agassiz, fiom the Lias of Whitby, 

 Yorkshire. 



Examples of Diplavanthus, Acanthodes, Cephalaspis, and large head-shields of Scaph- 

 aspis, from the Devonian of Cradley, Worcestershire. 



I[. By Purchase. — B. Invertebkata, 



3 Insect-remains from the Bembridge Limestone, Isle of Wight. 



A series of 75 Crustacea from the Chalk -marl and Greensand of Wiltshire, including 

 many of the type-specimens figured and described by Professor Bell in his Monograph 

 «' On the Fossil Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand," Part II., Pal. Soc. Vol. XIV., 

 ^860. Part of the Cunnington Collection. 



3 Specimens of Eryon critujuus, etc.. Lias, Lyme Regis. 



177. E 87 Tribolites, 



