ACCOUNTS. &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSRUM. 45 



VIII, — Visitors and Students, 



The number of visits from persons who have specially consulted portions of the col- 

 lection, or who have required attendance or assistance, was 9,628, as compared with — 



1881. 

 1880. 

 1879. 

 1878. 

 1877. 

 1876. 

 1875. 

 1874. 

 1873. 



Albert G'unlher. 



7,407 in 



the year 



4,260 



}} 



4,003 



J5 



3,064 



55 



3,671 



55 



3,425 



55 



2,799 



,, 



3,306 



J5 



2,530 



5» 



Department of Geology. 

 I. — Arrangement. 



Fossil Mammalia. — South East Gallery. — The twenty-four new table-case.«, of an 

 improved pattern and of larger size than hitherto supplied, each measuring 10 feet 

 8 inches by 4 feet 8 inches, have been handed over to the Department by H.M. Office of 

 Works, and are now filled with specimens, a considerable number of which have also been 

 mounted upon tablets and labelled. 



In Table- case 1 (South side) are placed various human remains and flint implements 

 from Kent's Cavern, Torquay, and from Cat's-hole and other caves in the peninsula of 

 Gower, Glamorganshire; presented by Col. E. E.. Wood. Human-remains and a stone 

 implement from a cavern at Minas Geraes, Brazil. Also remains of Man, together with 

 incised drawings on bones and horns, cut reindeer horns, implements of bone and flint 

 from Dordogne, Les Eyzies, Bruniquel, and Neschers in France ; together with a series of 

 palaeolithic flint implements from the river- gravels of the valley of the Somme at St. 

 Acheul, etc. 



A small collection of remains of Quadrumana, (Monkeys,) from the Newer Miocene 

 Siwalik Hills, India ; from the Miocene of St. Gauden's, France ; Epplesheim, Hesse 

 Darmstadt ; Pikermi in Greece ; and Lot in France, comprising the genera Dryopitliecus, 

 Mesopithecus, and Palaolemur. 



In small Table-case Ia are placed the fossil Cheiroptera (Bats) of the genera Ves- 

 pertiho and Rhinolophus, from Mayence, Sansan, and Kent's Cavern ; the Iiisectivora 

 represented by the genera Parasorex, Sorex, Talpa, Palaospalax, and Erinaceus, from 

 the Auvergne, Allier, Bacton, Grays, &c. In the same table are placed the remains of 

 two remarkable extinct Carnivora, probably having Marsupial affinities, Plerodon and 

 Hycenodon, from the Eocene deposits of Vaucluse and from the Auvergne, France. 



In Table-case 2 are arranged a fine series of Carnivora from various Tertiary deposits 

 in Britain, Germany, France, Spain, India, and Brazil, representing the Cave Lion, 

 Felis spd(Ba\ the Leopard, Felis pardus ; the extinct sabre-toothed Tiger, Mackaerodus ; 

 the Hy^na, Wolf, &c. 



In small Table-case 2a are placed the Carnivora of the genera Amphicyon, JJinocyon, 

 Simocyon, Cynodictis, etc., from the Tertiary deposits of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, 

 Greece, &c. 



In Table-case 3 are a collection of skulls, lower-jaws, and limb-bones, of the great 

 cave-bear Ursus spelceus, chiefly from the caves of Westphalia and Franconia, and from 

 the Lozere, France ; Ursus ferox from Ireland, Ilford, &c. ; and Ursus urates from 

 Manea 'Fen, Cambridgeshire. 



Table-case 4 contains a large series of the teeth of lihinoceros tichorliinus, H.leptorhinuSy 

 megarhiniis, AiiHi Etruscus, from British Tertiary deposits; R. Sdileiermacheri, li.incisivus, 

 from the Val d'Arno, Epplesheim ; and R. Sinensis from China ; also remains of 

 Palceotherium magnum, P. medium and P. crassum from the Eocene of the Isle of Wight ; 

 of Vaucluse, France, &c. 



In small Table-case 4a are placed remains of Paloplotherium, Eocene, Vaucluse; of 

 Tapirus, from the Auvergne, from Epplesheim and from China ; of Lophiodun, 

 Coryphodon, Didyniodon, and Microchcerus from the Eocene of France and England, etc. 



In Table-case 5 is a series of teeth and other parts of species of Equus from N. and 

 S. America, from England and France ; of Hipparion and Hippotherium from France, 

 Greece and India; oi' Aric/titherium from the Eocene of Vaucluse, and Bembridgc, Isle of 

 Wight and the Miocene of France ; and of Homahduntotherium from Patagonia. 



Table-case 6 contains a large series of remains of Hippopotamus Pentlandi from Grotto 

 Maccagnone and Palermo, Sicily ; and other species from Malta, Crete, Nubia, and from 

 the Siwalik Hills, India. 



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