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The Fossil Trigonice, figured by Di'- Lycett* (^aud also a fine collection of fossil 

 Plmrotomaria), have been exhibited in Room V., by the introduction of another Table- 

 case from the Supplemental Room. 



[*Pal. Soc. Mons., 1872-79.] 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertebrata : — 



Mammalia - - - _ - _ 172 



Aves -------- 17 



Reptilia - 70 



Pisces ------- 329 



588 



Invertebrata : — 



Crustacea and Insecta - - - - 261 



Annelida ------- 159 



MoUusca - - - - - - - 7,214 



Polyzoa - 130 



Echinodermata - . - _ - - 200 



Zoophyta-Zoantharia ----- 349 



Protozoa and Rhizopoda . - - - 377 



8,690 



Fossil Plant-remains ---_---- 3,834 



Total number of Specimens registered - - - - 13,112 

 Number of Students' visits to the Gallery during the year, 1,679. 



Acquisitions. 

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



I. By Donation. — A. Veetebrata. 



Reptilian remains, in Triassic ? clay-shale from Kimberley. Presented by George J- 

 Lee, Esq., through Col. Lanyon, c.b., c.m.g.. Governor of Griqua Land, West. 



Dicynodont, and other reptilian remains, from Stormberg, South Africa. Presented 

 by E . J. Dunn, Esq. 



Specimens of Cephulaspis Lyelli, from the Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire. The 

 type-specimen of Amhlypterus nemopterus, Agassiz (figured in the " Recherches sur les 

 Poissons Fossiles," tom. II. pi. iv. b. figs. 1 6t 2), from the Carboniferous shales of Wardie, 

 near Edinbiu'gh. Tooth of Rhizodus, from Burdie House, and of Helodus turgidus, from the 

 Carboniferous Limestone, Bristol. Bones of the Cave-Lion, Hyaena, Wolf, Fox, Bear, 

 Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Red Deer, Reindeer, and other remains from Kent's Hole, Tor- 

 quay. Bequeathed by the late Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., f.g.s., &c. 



Teeth of the Musk-ox {Ovibos moschatus, Blainv.), described in the Geological Maga- 

 zine, 1879, Vol. VI., p. 246. Presented by R. W. Cheadle, Esq., f.g.s. 



Remains of Marsupial Mammalia, of the genera Macropus, Pnlorchestes, Protemnodon, 

 Sthenurus, Thylacoleo, Sarcophilus, P/iascolomys, and Diprotodon, from ancient fluviatile 

 deposits, Gowrie, Queensland. Presented by G. F. Bennett, Esq., m.d., f.l.s., &c. 



Fossil teeth of Rhinoceros sinensis, Owen ; Hippotherium, Cervus, and Hycena sinensis, 

 Owen ; purchased in apothecary's shops in Hong Kong. Presented by H. N. Moseley, 

 Esq., M.A., F.R.8., Naturalist on H.M.S. " Challenger." 



Bones of Dinornis crassus, D. gracilis, and J), tenuipes, from N^w Zealand. Presented 

 by Professor Owen, c.b., f.r.s. 



6. Invertebrata. 



Twenty-two specimens of Stromatopora from the Devonian Limestone, near Totness. 

 Presented by A. Champernowne, Esq., m.a., f.g.s. 



Fourteen specimens of Upper Palaeozoic Corals, from Queensland, Australia. Pre- 

 sented by the late R. Daintree, Esq., c.m.g. 



Ninety-one Palaeozoic and other fossils, from Western Australia. Presented by Henry 

 L. Brown, Esq. 



Thirty Tertiary shells from the Upper Amazons (figured and described in Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, 1878, vol. xxxv., f. 7). Presented by Charles R. Brown, Esq., f.g.s. 



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