ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH iMUSEUM. 39 



(/.) Zoophyta-Zoantharia. — Sixty Corals from the Chalk of Surrey and Sussex (Caprou 

 Collection). 



Twenty-five specimens, Chcetetes, Lithostrotion, Alveolites, &c., from the Carboniferous 

 Limestone, Scotland and Belgium. 



Forty-thres specimens of Calceola, Cyathophyllum, Heliolites, &c., from the Devonian, 

 of the Eifel, Rhenish-Prussia. 



Two hundred and three Silurian Corals, Favosites, Chatetes, Strombodes, Cyatho- 

 phyllum, &c., from Cincinnati, &c., U.S.A. 



{g.^ Protozoa. — Fifteen specimens of Cumerospongia, Becksia, Coscinopora, Calopty- 

 chium, &c., from the Chalk of Coesfeld, Westphalia. 



About 200 Chalk Ventriculites, Choanites, Cephalites, &c., in chalk and flint ; part of 

 the Capron Collection ; from Surrey and Sussex. 



C. Plantje. 



201 Fossil plants, from the Trias of Lunz, Austria, and from the Coal-formation of 

 Moravia ; 43 of which have been figured and described by Dr. Ettingshausen in the 

 Transactions of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna. 



Nine Fucoid remains from the Silurian of Cincinnati. 



The total acquisitions during the past year are as follows : — 

 I. By Donation, A. Vertebrata - 

 II. ,f Purchase, A. Vertebrata - 



I. J, Donation, B. luvertebrata - 

 II. „ Purchase, B. Invertebrata 



I. „ Donation, C. Plantas - - - 

 II. „ Purchase, C. Plantae 



Geo. R. Waterhouse. 



- 



440 



582 



- 



1,531 





- 



2,216 



3,747 







" 



16 





- 



210 



226 





. - . 



Total 



4,555 



MiNERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



The additions to the Mineralogical Collections during the year 1879 have num- 

 bered 1,029, including a collection of rocks recently presented by Henry Ludlam, Esq., 

 and exclusive of additions resulting from the incorporation of the minerals hitherto be- 

 longing to the India Museum. 



The former additions have been registered, labelled, and incorporated. 



The time of the staff has been, as heretofore, directed, at every available opportunity, 

 to the identification of references in old catalogues to minerals in the reserve collection, 

 and so labelling these minerals that their history may be inseparable from them. This 

 work, long in hand, progresses slowly, at a time ■w'^ien the Department is continually 

 occupied in the concentration of the various subsidiary collections, and other preparations 

 for their removal to the new Museum. 



The drawers under the mineralogical table-cases are in course of being evacuated by the 

 Geological Department, and the portion of the petrological collection, hitherto densely 

 packed in 200 large drawers, has been removed to those thus rendered vacant, and at 

 the same time sorted and grouped. 



The crystallographic collection also, consisting of small detached crystals, has been 

 arranged in glass-topped boxes to be ready for removal. 



The new Catalogue of the whole collection, with crystallographic descriptions, has been 

 continued on every available opportunity, and the specimens in the table-cases containing 

 the native elements have been numbered in accordance with it. 



The books in the Departmental Library, of which the numbers have been largely aug- 

 mented during the past year, have been stamped with an oflScial stamp. They are all 

 catalogued. 



Preparations for the approaching transportation of the collections to the new Museum 

 of Natural History, and for their re-arrangement there, have been for some time in hand, 

 and nearly 4,000 trays have been filled with fresh cotton for the display of additional 

 specimens that will be exhibited in the new gallery. 



On the petrological collection, which has during recent years been growing rapidly in 

 completeness, much work has been done in examining and determining the rocks by the 

 aid of microscopic sections (of which 280 have been cut and finished in the Department) 

 and in labelling them in accordance with the results obtained. 



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