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In Room V. The Murchison collection of Silurian fossils have been transferred to a 

 series of drawers in Room IV^., and Table- case No. 6 has been appropriated to the 

 exhibition of the Arctic collections brought home by H.M.SS. '' Alert " and " Dis- 

 covery," under the command of Captain Sir George Nares, C.B., f.r.s., and described by 

 Mr. Robert Etheridge, f.r.s., in tlie Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1878, 

 voL xxxiv., pp. 568-639, pi. 25-29. Table-case No.* 6 also contains a portion of the 

 Arctic fossils brought home by Captain Sir Allen Young in 1875-76, and by Dr. Suther- 

 land in 1850-51, &c. 



In Room VI. Additions have been made to the series of Crustacea exhibited in Table- 

 case 7, viz. — Eryoii piopiiujuux, Schlot., from the Solenhofen Limestone; Eryon Hart, 

 ma^iwi, Meyer, from the Lias, Wurtemberg ; ^ger Mardevi, Woodvv., from the Lias- 

 Lyme Regis ; and Caiicrinos clavigcr, Mlinster, from the Lithographic stone of Bavaria. 



By the addition of a series of small exhibition case&, fitting into the window-recesses 

 of this room, space has been obtained for the exhibition of a fine group of shells of 

 Geivitlia anceps, Desh., from the Lower Greensand, Atherfield, Isle of Wight; two 

 beautiful groups of Trigonia clm^ellata, Park, Coral Rag, Osmington, Dorset; one group 

 contains U2)wards of 70 specimens associated together ; sj^ecimens of the internal casts, 

 in calcite, of Nautilus liexagonus, 8hy., Amniunites excavatus, Sby., Ammonites perarmatus, 

 Sby., from the Calcareous Grit, Upper Oolite, Marcham, near Abingdon ; presented by 

 the Honourable Robert Mai-sham, F.G.S., &c. 



The '•' Gilbertson Collection " of Carboniferous Limestone MoUusca, and Crinoidea, 

 occupying 32 drawers beneath Table-case No. 3, has been mounted upon tablets, named 

 and labelled, and the " type " specimens specially marked and catalogued. 



PLANTiE. 



In Room I. The Fossil Plant-remains from Discovery Harbour, on the western 

 shore of Robeson Channel, North Grinnell Land, Lat. 81° 45' N., Long. 64° 45 W. 

 (collected during the winter of 1875-76, by Capt. H. W. Feilden, r.a.. Naturalist of the 

 English North Polar Expedition), have been exhibited in a case on the north side of 

 this Room. These interesting plant-remains are from the highest latitude in which 

 arboreal vegetation has been detected, being from 3 to 4 degrees further north than the 

 similar deposits already described, from Spitzbergen. The collection, which embraces 

 about 16 genera of plants, has been fully described by Prof. O. Heer, F.M.G.S., In the 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1878, vol. xxxiv. p. 66. 



In Room IV. In a series of 16 Drawers beneath Table-case No. 1 has been placed 

 the collection of Plant-remains from the Carboniferous, Triassic, and Tertiary deposits of 

 Austria, recently acquired by purchase of Prof, von Ettingshausen. 



In Room V. The entire collection of Fossil Fruits from the London Clay of the 

 Isle of Sheppy, part of the late Dr. Bowerbank's Museum, and numbering upwards of 

 5,000 specimens, have been carefully cleaned and assorted, and (under the studies of 

 Professor von Ettingshausen), have yielded 154 new and undescrlbed forms, which It is 

 that gentleman's intention to publish In a Monograph for the Palasontographical Society. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertebrata : — 



Mammalia - - - - _ _ _ 923 



Aves -------- 43 



Reptilla ------- 288 



Pisces ------- 460 



Jnvertebrata 



1,714 



Crustacea and Insecta - > - _ 299 



Annelida ------- 38 



Mollusca ------- 4,235 



Polyzoa ------- 9(} 



Echinodermata ------ 1,684 



Zoophyta-Zoantharia ----- 225 



Protozoa and Rhizopoda - _ - - 72 



6,649 



Plant-remains ---------- 293 



Total number of Specimens registered - - - - 8,656 

 Number of Students' visits to the Gallery during the year, 1,317. 



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