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Amei'ica, To the carapace and tail have now been added (by the kindness of Professor 

 Guadry of the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris) the skull, lower jaw, and neck- 

 vertebra?, fore and hind limbs, giving to this specimen an entirely new interest. 



The skeleton and dermal covering of the small existing seven-banded Armadillo are 

 placed beside the great extinct Glyptodon for comparison. 



The separate bones of the Glyptodon and Megatherium occupy Wall-case 13 in the 

 Pavilion. 



In Wall-case 11 are placed the fine series of remains of the gigantic extinct Marsupials 

 of Australia, including the Diprotodon, Nototherium, Protemnodon, Sthenurus, and 

 Phascolomys. 



Wall-case 12, 37 feet in length, on the north side of the Pavilion, is now in course of 

 construction. 



Twenty -four fine table-cases measuring 10 feet 10 inches by four feet eight inches each, 

 with 60 glazed drawers beneath them, are now being supplied by Her Majesty's Office of 

 Works for the Mammalian collection in the South-East Gallery and the Pavilion. 



Gallery D. 



Fossil Reptilia. — The arrangement of the large series of Sea-Lizards ( Enaliosauria), 

 which occupy the entire length of wall-cases on the south sideof this gallery, far in advance 

 on the 31st December 1880, has now been fully completed. 74: Ichthyosauri, in irames, 

 and 33 fully developed remains occuj^y Case 12; and 30 Plesiosau7-i, in trames, and 20 

 separate remains occupy Case 11. 



The restored reproduction of Plesiosaurus Cramptoni, from the Lias of Whitby, 

 Yorkshire, acquired by purchase from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 

 Dublin, has been made good, and fixed upon the wall of the gallery of communication, 

 connecting the east end of the South-East Gallery with the Reptilian Gallery. It covers 

 a surface of 22 feet by 14 feet, and is the lai'ge&i Plesiosaurus known. 



The line series of remains of Cliehne giyas, Owen, of Chelone Hoffmanni, and other 

 marine turtles from the eocene of Sheppey and Harwich, and the upper chalk of 

 Maestricht, Holland, are arranged in Case 6. The land and freshwater tortoises and 

 Emyda in Case 7, include the remains of the gigantic land tortoise of the Sewalik hills, 

 Colossochelys gigas, Falc. The restored model of the carapace of this great shield-reptile 

 has been reconstructed, and fixed upon its stand at the west end of the Reptile Gallery. 



The large frames containing the remains of Omosaurus and Iguanodon, together with 

 numerous detached bones of these and other genera of Dinosauria, are placed in Wall- 

 cases 3, 4, and />. 



The Pteiodactylia, the Crocodilia, the Pliosauria, and Amphibia are temporarily grouped 

 in Wall-cases I, 2, 8, 9, and 10. 



Twenty-four Table-cases (removed from Room V. of the old Geological Gallery) have 

 been repaired and polished, and are placed down the centre of this gallery (D.), the 

 smaller Reptilia being arranged in the glass table-to^js, and the unexhibited series in the 

 cabinets beneath them. 



Fossil Fishes (Gallery A.). — The W^all-cases for this gallery were completed in May 

 1881. Twenty table-cases with cabinets of drawers beneath them and twelve table-tojjs 

 on stands have been placed in this gallery, and the entire collection of Fossil Fishes has 

 been unpacked and roughly arranged in the table and wall-cases and in the cabinets of 

 drawers. 



No. 2, Reserve Gallery, Cephalopoda. — This gallery, which contains 16 table-cases, 

 roughly classified, was opened to the public in August 1881. It will shortly be provided 

 with Wall-cases. 



Gallery B., Fossil Invertebrata , was completed and opened to the public 11th October 

 1881. This gallery contains about 300 feet linear of wall-cases, and 32 glazed table- 

 cases with 1,800 drawers beneath, and is devoted to the preservation and exhibition of 

 the British and Foreign Gasteropoda, and Conchifera ; the British specimens beinii' 

 arranged in 16 Table-cases, and the Foreign ones occupying three tiers of slopes in the 

 wall-cases, along the Avesteru side of the gallery, tlie topmost shelf being reserved for 

 large objects, both British and Foreign. The other moiety on the east side is filled by the 

 remaining groups, viz., the Brachiopoda, the Bryozoa, the lusecta, Myriopoda, Arachnida, 

 Crustacea, the Sea-urchins, Starfishes, and Stone lilies. 



On the i>iers, between the wall-cases, are placed some fine slabs of fossiliferous lime- 

 stone, e.g., a fine slab of " Entrochal marble," entirely filled with stems of Crinoids from 

 the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire ; another black marble slab with Loxonema 

 and Brachiopod shells from Ireland, a third slab, of " Petworth marble," entirely 

 comjDosed of shells of Paludinajiuviorum, from the Wealden of Petworth, Sussex. 



Gallery C. — This gallery, designed to receive the Fossil corals. Sponges, Foram- 

 inifera, and the Fossil plant remains, is now being fitted with Avall-cases. Table-cases are 

 also in course of preparation. 



The collections for this gallery at present occupy part of the Table-cases and Cabinets 

 in No. 2 Gallery, and the Fossil plants, &c., are temporarily arranged in deal boxes with 

 lids, and in Cabinets in Reserve Gallery jNo. 4, which has no cases at present provided 

 for it. 



