3^ ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



B. Invertebeata. 



The type-specimen of Eostellaria Pricei, H. Woodw., from the Grey Chalk, Folkstone. 

 (Figured and described in the Geol. Mag. 1872, vol. ix., p, 97, pi. iii.). Presented by 

 F. G. H. Price, Esq., e.s.a., f.g.s. 



Eighteen specimens of Palaeozoic fossils, from New South Wales, including the type- 

 specimen of Onycopyge Liversirlgei, H. Woodw., Figured and described in the Geol. 

 Mag. 1880, p. 97. Presented by Professor A. Liversidge E.o.s., f.g.s. 



A fine example of Ammonites hiplex, Sby., Kimmeridge Clay ; a slab of Trigonia 

 impressa, Great Oolite, Stonesfield ; three Gault and Greensand fossils and two Trilobites 

 from Builth, Presented by Professor J. Wood-Mason, f.g.s., &c. 



Fifty-seven Palasozoic fossils, from Bolivia, principally Brachiopoda. Presented by 

 Kichard Inwards, Esq. 



About 50,0f)0 Miscellaneous Foreign Fossils, transferred from the Museum of 

 Practical Geology, Jermyn-street, to the British Musuem, with the permission of 

 Professor A. C. Ramsay, l.l.d., f.k.s., Director-General. 



A fine specimen of Stromatopora, from the Devonian of Totnes. Presented by Arthur 

 Champernowne, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



Eighteen Fossil-remains included in quartzite pebbles of Devonian age, from Budleigh- 

 Salterton, Devon. Presented by Arthur Wyatt-Edgell, Esq., f.g.s. 



C. Plants. 



A collection of Fossils, chiefly Plant-remains; comprising fossil wood and impressions of 

 leaves, from the Mackenzie River ; obtained by means of a sum voted by the Government 

 Grant Committee of the Royal Society. The specimens have been described by 

 Professor Oswald Heer, of Zurich (See Proc. Roy. Soc, voL xxx.). Presented by the 

 Committee, viz : — Robert H. Scott, Esq., F.K.S., and Dr. John Rae, F.R.S. 



A copy of Dr. William Smith's Geologically coloured Map of England and Wales and 

 part of Scotland, accompanied by a memoir : London, 1815. Presented by A. W. Franks, 

 Esq., F.K.S., F.S.A. 



II. By Purchase. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — Remains of Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Horse, &c., from Pleistocene 

 deposits, BIckley, etc., Salop. 



(2.) Aves. — An entire skeleton of a new and remarkably small species of Dinornis 

 (D. parvus, Owen), from New Zealand, in a singularly perfect state of preservation. Also 

 three bones of the leg of a Dinornis. 



The head of a bird, Argillornis longipennis, Owen, being the type-specimen figured and 

 described by Professor Owen, in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1880, vol. xxxvi.,p. 23, pi. ii., 

 from the London Clay of Sheppey. 



Six parts of the wing-bone of a bird, Argillornis longipennis, Owen, figured and described 

 in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1880, together with the humerus of a bird (undesci'ibed), also 

 from the London Clay of Sheppey. 



i^2>.) Reptilia. — Three portions of shaft of long wing-bone of Pterodactylus, from the 

 Chalk of Snodland, Kent. Bones of Pterodactylus, from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



One specimen of Palaophis toliapicus, Owen (with 33 united vertebra;), and two 

 detached vertebrse of the same, from the London Clay of Sheppey. 



One Ci'ocodilian skull and one Saurian vertebra, from the same locality as the preceding 

 specimens. 



A series of remains of Mauisaurus, figured in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxv., 

 p. 541, pi. xxiii; portions of carapace of Pelohatochelys Plakei, Seeley, from the Kim- 

 meridge Clay, Dorsetshire. (Figured and described. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxi., 

 p. 234, pi. xiii.) 



Skull of Chelone gigas, Owen, London Clay, Sheppey. Figured and described in Pal. 

 Soc Mon. Brit. Reptilia, 1880. 



A Skull of Tdeosaurus, from the Upper Lias of Whitby. 



Carapace and plastron of a new species of Cheloue, from the London Clay of Sheppey. 

 Two small Ichthyosauri a,nd one ilea,d of Ichthyosaurus, hom the Lias of Lyme Regis ; 

 portions of jaw of Ichthyosaurus campylodon, from the Lower Chalk, Dover. 



Detached teeth, vertebrae, and small bone of paddle of Ichthyosaurus, from the Gault of 

 Folkestone. 



■ One jaw of Pliosaurus, Kimmeridge Clay, Weymouth ; the skull of Rhinohelys, sp. 

 (Seeley), Chalk Marl, Dover ; remains of Plesiosaurus, Lias, Lyme Regis. 



Reptilian vertebrte, from the-Drift, near Bury, Suffolk. Skull and lower jaw, and por- 

 tions of limb-bones of Dicynodon, from the Triassic beds of South Africa. 



A valuable series of Iguanodon remains from the Weaklen, near Hastings, Sussex. 



Remains of the great horned Lizard, Megalania pvisca, from the banks of King's 

 Creek, Queensland, Australia; described and figured in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 1880. 



Cast of the great Plesiosaurvs Cramptoni (the original, obtained from the Lias of 

 Whitby, Yorkshire, is preserved in the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin). 



(4.) Pisces. — 



