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



In Room III. The series of Tertiary Fossils from Sicily, Cairo, and Belgium, are 

 arranged in drawers beneath Table-cases in this Room. Here are also placed the collec- 

 tion of Cretaceous MoUusca fromTournay; and the series of Carboniferous Plant-remains 

 from Grundy Co., Illinois. 



The series of Brown-Coal Insect-remains are also placed in drawers in this Room. 



In Room IV. The collection of Italian Tertiaries from the Roman Campagna are 

 placed in drawers beneath Table-case 1. 



In Room V. Sixty-four drawers of Cephalopoda, principally Ammonites, have been 

 arranged and labelled, and placed under Table-case 20, in this Room. 



In Room VI. Mr. Cunnington's Cretaceous MoUusca have been incorporated with the 

 collection in drawers under Table-case 3, in this Room. 



The additions to the Crag MoUusca have been registered and incorporated with the 

 Crag collection in this Room. 



In the Supplemental Room, ninety-six drawers of Corals have been examined and 

 arranged, the larger specimens have been cleaned and re-arranged in stratigraphical order, 

 in the Pier-case adjoining. 



Plant^e. 



In Room I. Some additions to the Plant-remains, from the Tertiary Strata, have 

 been placed in drawers in this Room. Also numerous specimens of Fossil wood. 



The fine series of Miocene Plant-remains from Haring in Tyrol, described by the 

 Baron von Ettingshausen, have been registered and arranged in three cabinets in the 

 Supplemental Room. 



A Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea completed in Manuscript on the 22nd 

 December 1876, was ordered to be printed in January 1877, and was passed through the 

 press and published in March 1877. 



The time of the assistants has also been occupied in aiding numerous scientific workers, 

 Avho, during the past year, have consulted the valuable collections in the department for 

 purposes of study, for carrying on original researches, or in the preparation of monographs 

 for publication. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertebrata : — 



Mammalia ----___ iQ5 



Aves -------- 61 



Reptilia ------- 910 



Pisces ---_.__ 288 



1,424 



Inverlehrata 



Crustacea and Insecta - - - - 521 



Annelida ------- 184 



MoUusca ------- 10,822 



Polyzoa ------- 39 



Echinodermata - - - - - -1,838 



Zoophyta-Zoantharia ----- 708 



Protozoa and Rhizopoda - - - - 292 



14,404 



Plant-remains - - - - -- - - - -825 



Total number of Specimens registered - - - - 16,653 

 Number of Students visiting the Gallery during the year, 1,250. 



Acquisitions. 

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



I. By Donation. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — Remains oi Machairodiis, Hyanarctos, Merycopotamus, and Mastodon 

 from the Sewalik Hills, India : of Bramatherium and Hippopotamus, from Perim Island 

 Gulf of Cambay ; and vertebrae of large Cetaceans, from the Coralline and Red Crags of 

 Suffolk ; together with portions of the mandibles of Chalicomys Jayeri, from the Miocene 

 Lignite, of Kapfnach, Switzerland. Presented by Charles Falconer, Esq., F.G.S. 



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