ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 4.5 



II. Guides and Catalogues. 



A email guide to the Fossil Mammalia, Aves, and Reptilia Las been prepared, and 

 was issued on the opening of the Museum, 18ih April 1881. 



A catalogue of the Foraminifera is now in the hands of the printer, and will be ready 

 for issue in March 1882. A catalogue of the Fossil Sponges is in course of preparation. 



II r. Registration. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertehrata : — 



Mammalia ------- 210 



Aves -------- 16 



Reptilia 246 



Pisces 969 



1,441 



Invertelrata :• 



Cephalopoda and other Mollusca - - - 1,631 



Molluscoida 822 



Crustacea ____-- 739 



Annelida ------- 89 



Echinoderraata ------ 564 



Zoanthai'ia - - - - - - - 174 



Spongida and Foraminifera - - - -1,597 



5,616 



Fossil Plants 135 



Total number of Specimens registered - - - 7,192 



IV. — Acquisitions. 

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



I. Bg Donation. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A molar of Elephas frimigenius from the River- valley Gravel, 

 Farnham, Surrey. I'resented by Dr. Brushfield. 



An astragalus of Elephant, from the Forest Bed at Hasboro', Norfolk. Presented 

 by J. W. Hull, Esq. 



The terminal portion of the tail-sheath of Glgptodon clavipes, from the Alluvial 

 (Newer Tertiary) deposits near Monte Video. Presented by W. G. Lettsom, Esq. 



Cast of a small Mammal Jaw, Iriconodon mordax, Owen, from the Purbeck Beds of 

 Swanagc, Dorset (see Woodcut, p. 378. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxvii.) Presented 

 by Henry Willett, Esq., r.G.s. 



(2.) Aves. — Twenty-six casts of bones of a great Wingless Diving Bird, Hesperornis 

 regalis, Marsh, from the Cretaceous strata o\ Kansas (Rocky Mountains). Together 

 with a copy of the work in which they are figured and described ; viz. : — vol. vii. Report 

 of the Geological Explorations of the 40th parallel, by Clarence King ; Odontornithes, 

 Royal 4to. 1880, 34 plates, pp. 202. Presented by Professor O. C. Marsh, M.A., p.g.s. 



(3.) Reptilia. — The tail-sheath of Megalania prisca, Owen, from King's Creek, Darlin"- 

 Downs, Qiieensland, Australia. Presented by G. F. Bennett, Esq., Corr. M. Zool. Soc. 



The skull of ^lurosaurus felinus, from the Trias, of Gough, Karoo District, South 

 Africa. Figured and described by Professor Owen, in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. 

 xxxvii., p. 261. pi. ix. Presented by Thomas Bain, Esq. 



Eighteen Crocodilian teeth and six other remains from the Wealden? Olaria Station, 

 Bahia, Brazil. Presented by Joseph Mawson, Esq. 



Part of Costal plate of Trionyx, from the Suez Canal, near Chalon, Arabian Desert. 

 Presented by Professor Owen, c.B. 



(4.) Pisces. — Epicranial plates of Palcepterus grnnulatus, Owen MS., from the Arabian 

 Desert : seven teeth of Carcharodon megalodon, Agassiz, from the Miocene Suez Canal. 

 Presented by Professor Owen, c.B. 



Fifty specimens of scutes, teeth and part of head of Lepidotus, from Wealden ? 

 Plataforma, Bahia, Brazil. Presented by Joseph Mawson, Esq. 



Remains of Edaphodon Sedgwickii, from the Upper Chalk of Norwich. Presented by 

 T. G. Bayfield, Esq. 



Maxillary bone, left side of Ischyodus Townshendi, from the Portland Oolite, Isle of 

 Portland. Presented by Wm. Davies, Esq., F.G.S. 



Three fossil fishes fi-om the Lias of Lyme Regis. Presented by J. Starkie Gardner, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



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