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Specimens registered during the past year : — 

 Vertebrata : — 



Mammalia --- ._--30 



Aves -------- 3 



Reptilia 47 



Pisces ------- 126 



Invertebrata ; — 



Mollusca - - - - - - - 691 



Polyzoa ------- 25 



Insecta and Crustacea - - - - 555 



Annelida ------- 32 



Echinodermata - - - - - - 219 



Zoophyta-Zoantharia ----- 96 



Ehizopoda and Protozoa - - - - 162 



206 



1,780 

 Plantcs : — Fossil Plant-remains __---- 88 



Total number of Specimens registered * - - - 2,074 



*Note, — Only a very small number of specimens were registered during the 

 earlier half of the past year ; during the latter half the entire staff was occupied with 

 the business of removal and the subsequent work of re-arrangement of the collec- 

 tions in the New Building. 



Although the public was excluded from the Geological Gallery for several months, 

 owing to preparations for removal, 

 597 Scientific Students were admitted between the 1st January and the 12th August; 



and between 8th October and 31st December. 

 152 Students have visited and worked at portions of the collections since their removal 



to Cromwell Road. 

 Total Number of Students admitted to the Geological Galleries, 7-i9. 



Acquisitions. 

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



I. By Donation. — A. Veetebeata. 



The jaws of a fossil fish of the genus Sphyrcenodus, sp. nov., from the Eocene formation 

 of Hordwell, Hants. Presented by Professor Owen, C.B., f.r.s., &c. 



Specimens of Palaoniscus, from the Permian marl-slates of Ferry Hill, Durham- 

 Presented by Rev. Canon Greenwell, M.A., f.e.s. 



The defensive spine of Ischyodus brevirostris, Agassiz, from the Gault of Folkestone. 

 Presented by J. Starkie Gardner, Esq., f.g.s., &c. 



Upper and Lower Jaws of Steneosaiirus, 20 specimens of dermal scutes and vertebrae of 

 Teleusaurus ; from the Oolite, near Oxford. Remains of Jcrolepis, from the Millstone 

 grit., &c. Spine of Leptacanthus, £rom the Stonesfield Slate, &c. Presented by Professor 

 J. Wood-Mason, f.g.s., &c. 



Fossilised Turtle's eggs imbedded in Coral-sand-formation, from the Island of Ascension. 

 Presented by Lieut. Haggard, e.n. 



Pelvic portion of Plesiosaurus in a nodule, from the Lower Lias, Denton, Lincolnshire. 

 (Noticed in the Gentleman's Magazine, about 1700.) Presented by Major Harlowe 

 Turner, &c., &c. 



Skull of the great horned Lizard 3Iegalania prisca, from King's Creek, Darling Downs, 

 Australia. Presented by Geo. F. Bennett, Esq. 



Fossil remains of Diprotodon Australis, Owen, from Queensland, Australia. Presented 

 by Sir George Verdon, &c., &c. 



Remains of My/odon, JElephas, and Canis, from. San Angelo, Mexico. Presented by 

 Patrick Geddes, Esq. 



Right mandible of Charopotamvs Cuvieri, Owen, Lower Eocene formation, Seafield, 

 Isle of Wight. Figured in Geol. Trans., 2nd series, vol. vi., p. 41., pi. iv. Presented by 

 the Rev. W. D. Fox, m.a. 



Skull and horns of Red deer {Cervus elaphus) and portions of skeleton of same: 

 together with remains of Bus longifrons, JEquus, Sus, Capra, Canis, &c., from an 

 excavation at Edmundsea, near Waltham Abbey. Presented by Major Tovey, Royal 

 Engineers. 



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