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



A series of fossil fishes from the Chalk, comprising about 50 specimens (mostly teeth 

 in groups) of the genera Ptychodus, Otodus, Lamna, Oxyrhina, Notidanus, Cnrax, 

 Saurccephalus, Hypsodon, Enchodus, Beryx, Pttchyrhizodus, etc., etc. Presented by the 

 Right Honourable the Earl of Ducie, f.r.s,, F.G.S., &c. 



B. Invebtebrata. 



Twenty-four shells from the Raised Beach, Estuary of the Clyde. Presented by 

 J. Darion, Esq. 



A cast of a new species of Crioceras, from the Infeiior Oolite Bayeux. Presented by 

 Professor E. E. Desiongchamps. 



Ammonites Defrancii and Onustus ornatissimits, from the Inferior Oolite, Sully, 

 Bayeux. Presented by M. Caraboeuf. 



A fine slab of Crinoidal limestone, from the Devonian of Newton Bushel, S. Devon. 

 Presented by Wm. Vioary, Esq., f.g.s. 



Twenty-three corals from Scinde (described in the Palasontologia Indica, ser. xiv. vol. 

 I. " Sind Fossil Corals and Alcyonaria " (with 28 platesj, 1880). Presented by H. B. 

 Medlicott, Esq., f.r.s.. Director of the Geological Survey of India. 



Seventeen specimens of fossil corals, from the Carboniferous Limestone of Lough Erne. 

 Presented by the Earl of Enniskillen, d.o.l., f.r.s. 



Two blocks of Carboniferous Limestone with corals, from the coast near Galway, 

 Ireland. Presented by Mitchell Henry, Esq., m.p. 



A specimen of silicified freshwater sponge, Spongilla pwbeckensis, Young : from the 

 Freshwater Purbeck Beds, Stare Cove, Swanage, Dorset. Presented by John T. Young, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



C. Plant^s:. 



Fifty-two slabs of Coal-plants, from the mines of La Chazotte, St^ Etienne, France. 

 Presented by M. C. Chantre. 



Four mounted slides of selected Diatomacca, from the London Clay, Sheerness-on-Sea, 

 Isle of Sheppey. Presented by W. H. Shrubsole, Esq., f.g.S. 



11. By Purchase. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A series of limb-bones and teeth of the Mammoth (Elephas primigenius), 

 from the Loess of the Danube, near Belgrade. 



Part of the jaw of il/ws/oaow, showing milk-dentition, from the Miocene formation of 

 Perim Island. 



Remains of ^us Erymanthi, from Pikermi, near Athens. 



(2.) Aves. — The bones of right and left leg of Dinornis, from Glenmark Swamp, 

 Canterbury, New Zealand. 



(3.) Reptilia. — A small but nearly perfect specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis, from. 

 the Lias of Lyme Regis ; formerly in Dr. Mantell's Collection. 



A coloured cast of the head of Ichthyosaurus, from the Lias of Lyme Regis (the 

 original preserved in the Geological Society's rooms at Burlington House). 



Two nearly perfect specimens of a small fossil reptile, Simosaurus pusillus, Fiaas, from 

 the Trias, Hoheneck, in Wurtemberg. (Figured and described by Dr. Oscar Fraas in 

 the Jahres. des Vereins fiir Vaterlandische Naturk. in Wurtemberg, 1881, p. 319. 

 taf. I.) 



Five Pterodactyle bones, from the G;iult of Folkestone. 



A group of teeth of Ichthyosaurus campylodon (figured in Dixon's Geology of Sussex, 

 p. 400. PI. xxxix. fig. 10.), from the Lower Chalk near Folkestone. 



Two Reptilian remains, from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



Two jaws of Ttleosaurus, from the Upper Lias of Whitby, Yorkshire. 



Two phalanges of Igunnodou, from the Wealden of Sussex. 



A Reptilian Vertebra, from the Chalk of Maestrich. 



(4.) Pisces. — A spine of Asteracanthus, and one of Hybodus, from the Kimmeridge 

 Clay of Weymouth. (Figured in Damon's Geology of Weymouth, 1880. PI. x, figs. 2 

 and 4.) 



Part of a Chimgeroid fish and a large Hybodus, from the Lias of Lyme Regis. 



A large coloured cast of Lepidotus maximus, Wagn., six feet in length, by three feet in 

 depth, from the Lithographic stone of Solenhofen. 



Fifteen specimens of Coccosteus, 2 sp. ; Holoptychius, sp. ; Cheirolepis Trailli, Dip- 

 lacanthus, 4 sp. ; Cheir acanthus, 2 sp. ; Gyroptychius, 2 sp. ; all from the Old Red Sand- 

 stone of Caithness, N.B. 



Twent3^-nine Fossil Fishes, from various British localities ; selected from the late 

 Prof. J. Tennant'e Collection. 



Thirty-seven Fossil Fishes comprising, Smerdis, Prohbias, and various Percoid fishes 

 to be determined, from the Eocene strata of Cereste ; Department Basses Alpes. 



Four specimens of Orodus and JJelludus, from the Carboniferous Limestone of Oreton, 

 Shropshire. 



Numerous Fish-remains from the Chalk and Lias. 



