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Pecten latissimus from the Miocene of Malta. Preseuted by Capt. H. W. Feilden, 

 K.A., F.G.S. 



" Conodonts " from the Sub -carboniferous formation of Bedford, Ohio ; also a epeci- 

 meu of Eozoon Cariadense. Presented by George J. Hinde, Esq., f.g.s. 



Specimens of Coral {Heliolites) bored by Lithodomi{?), from the Ayraestry Limestone, 

 Weo Edge, Stokesay. Presented by Prof. Dr. Corfield, M.A., F.G.S. 



Upwards of 200 Fossil Sponges, principally from the hard Chalk of Flamborough, 

 part of the collection of the late Dr. J. Bo werbank, F.ii.s. ; transferred by the Zool- 

 ogical Department. 



Nine Miocene Tertiary Plant-remains, from Armisson pres Narbonne. Presented by 

 M. Henri Deveze. 



120 Miocene Tertiary Leaves, from N. Grinnell Land, Lat. 81° 45' N. and Long. 

 64" 45' ^y., collected by H.M.S. "Discovery," in the winter of 1875-76, and described 

 by Prof. Oswald Heer, F.M.G.S.,in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1878, vol. xxxiv, p. 66. 

 Presented by the Lords of the Treasury. 



Twftlve plant-remains from the Wealden formation, Ecclesbourne Cliff, Hastings. 

 Presented by J. E. H. Peyton, Esq., F.G.S. 



Specimen of Ulodendron minor, from the Coal-measures, Somerset. Presented by 

 A. C. Cruttwell, Esq., f.g.s. 



II. By Purchase. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A well-preserved skull and other remains of Toxodon platensis, Owen, 

 from the Alluvial deposits, Buenos Ayres. 



An ulna of Plephas primigenius, dredged from the North Sea. 



Portions of crania and antlers of Cervus vcrticornis, C. Brownii, and C. m?gaceros ; 

 teeth of Elephax primicjeinus, Blum., E. antiquus, Falc, and remains of Rhinoceros; 

 dredged off the eastern coast. 



Part of antler of Cervits Pvlignaciis, from the Forest-bed, Norfolk. 



Cetacean remains, and teeth of Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Sits, Hippotheiium ; also antlers 

 and teeth of Cervidce, from the Red Crag of Suffolk. 



Cast of the skull of Ehinoceros Schleisnnacheri, Kaup, from Pikermi, near Athens ; the 

 original is preserved in the Munich Museum, and has been figured and described by Prof. 

 Wagner in the Memoirs of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, vol. viii., pi. 6. Also a cast 

 of an entire skull with lower jaw of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Cuv., in the Munich Museum, 

 from Kronberg, Bavaria. 



(2.) Aves.— 



(3.) Reptilia. — A series of reptilian remains, including the type specimen of Dolicho- 

 saurus longicolUs, Owen ; Pterodactylus conipressirostris, Owen ; wing-bones and other 

 remains of Pterodactyles, also portions of a jaw of Polyptychodon interruptus, Owen ; 

 paddle of Plesiosaurus, and shields of Chelone. These specimens, from the Chalk of Kent, 

 once formed a part of the well-known private iMuseum of Mi-s. Smith, of Tunbridge 

 Wells, and have been described and figured by Prof. Owen in his " Monograph on the 

 Reptilia of the Cretaceous Formations," published by the Paleeontographical Society in 

 1851. 



Teeth and Vertebrae of Mo^asaurus, from the Chalk near Norwich. 



Eight plaster-casts of type specimens of Pterodactyles and Chelonia, and of the singular 

 long-legged Lacertian, Cowpsoynathus lonyipes, Wagner; the originals are pre- 

 served in the Munich Museum, and have been figured and described by Dr. Herman 

 von Meyer, and Prof. Wagner; they were discovered in the Lithographic quarries of 

 Solenhofen, Bavaria. 



Skull and portion of mandible of Steneosaurus Stephaiii, Hulke (being the type-speci- 

 men figured and described in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History Field-club , 

 1877, p. 28, pi. 1); from the Cornbrash of Dorset. 



A fine skull (with anterior cervical vertebrae still attached) of Plesiosaurus laticeps, 

 Owen; also a nearly perfect skull, and an entire skeleton of a young Ichthyosaurus, from 

 the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis. 



A large series of fossil-remains comprising many new and undescribed forms of Dicy- 

 nodouts, and other reptilia; also specimens of Lycosaurus, Pareiasaurus, Endothiodon 

 bathystoma, Dicynodon and Oudenodon ; collected by Mr. Thomas Bain, from the Triassic 

 deposits of South Africa. 



(4.) Pisces. — A small series offish-remains from the Red Crag of Suffolk, consisting of 

 the dental bones of Edaphodon ; teeth, and clasper-spurs of SqualidcB ; dental plates of 

 Phyllodus, and teeth of Chrysophrys. 



Three specimens offish from the Eocene Green River Shales of Wyoming, U.S.A. 



Mandibles of Edaphodon Mantelli, teeth of Corax, Notidauus, Cimolichthys, and other 

 genera, from the Chalk of Norwich. 



Specimens of Erisichthe Dixoni {Saurocephalus lanciformis^, Edaphodon Mantelli, and 

 Puchyrhizodus hasnlis ; the ty2:)e-specimens figured and described in " Dixon's Geology of 

 Sussex;" also a fine series of jaws of Edaphodon, dental plates of Plethodus, the teeth of 

 several species of Ptychodus, fine specimens of three species of Beryx, of Berycopsis 

 elegans, Pomognathus eupterygius, of Enchodus, Cimolichthys, Hypsodon, Tomognathus, 

 170. E 4 and 



