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



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 5,229, as compared with — 



1882. 

 1881. 

 1880. 

 1879. 

 1878. 

 1877. 

 1876. 

 1875. 

 1874. 



The apparent falling off in the numbers of visitors during the past year is merely due 

 to the fact that during the busiest months of the removal it was found impossible to admit 

 visitors and students to examine the collections. 



Allieit Gunlher. 



9,628 in 



the year 



- 



7,407 





- 



4,260 





- 



4,003 





- 



3,064 





- 



3,671 





- 



3,425 





- 



2,799 





- 



3,306 





- 



Department of Geology. 



I. — A rrangement. 



Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia. — South East Gallery. — During the past year several exhibition 

 cases have been added to this gallery, although they are not all quite ready for the 

 reception of objects. 



Four open pier-cases, glazed upon both sides ; two of which are fixed on the south side 

 near the skeleton of the Mastodon, between Avall-cases 1 and 2, and are intended to 

 contain the fossil remains of the Felidce and Ursida; a third, also fixed on the south side, 

 between wall-cases 9 and 10, is intended to contain the fossil Sirenia; a fourth, which is 

 fixed upon the north side, between wall-cases 14 and 15, to contain the fossil Cetacea, of 

 the Antwerp Crag. 



A glass case for the skull and lower jaw of Dinutheriiim giganteum (Kaup), from the 

 Miocene of Epplesheim, Hesse Darmstadt. This extinct genus of proboscidean diffei's 

 from the Elephants in having two tusk-like incisors in the lower jaw, and none in the 

 upper. (Described and figured by Dr. Kaup, in his " Ossemens Fossiles du Darmstadt," 

 1837). 



A similar case for the skull with the tusks and lower jaw of Mastodon Andium, Cuv., 

 from the Tertiary deposits of Buenos Ayres. (Figured and described in Falconer's 

 Palajontological Memoirs.) 



A glass case for the skull with tusks and lower jaw of Elephas primigenius 

 (Blumenbach), " the Ilford Mammoth." This is the only cranium of the Mammoth 

 preserved in this country. (It has been figured and described in the " Geological 

 Magazine," 1864, pp. 241-244, and ibid., Vol. V., 1868, pp. 540-543, Plates xxii. and 

 xxiii. ; also in Dr. Leith Adams' British Fossil Elephants, Pal. Soc. Mon.) 



A glazed case in the centre of the gallery, near the east end, to contain the remains of 

 the extinct form of giant bandless Armadillo {Glyptodon), the remains of which have been 

 discovered in considerable numbers in the Tertiary deposits of the La Plata (described by 

 Professor H. Burmeister). 



A restored cast of the skull and horns of the great extinct Ruminant, Sivutherium 

 giganteum (Falconer and Cautley) from the Newer Miocene deposits of the Sivvalik Hills, 

 India (presented by the Royal College of Surgeons), is placed on a pedestal-stand in the 

 centre of the fioor of this gallery, near Pier-case 6, containing the remains of this great 

 herbivore (described by Falconer and Cautley, in Asiatic " Kesearches," 1836, Vol. xix., 

 p. 1 ; and in" Falconer's Palgeontological Memoirs," 1868, Vol. i., pp. 247-265, PI. 19 and 

 20 ; also by Dr. J. Murie, GeoL Mag. 1871, Vol. viii., pp. 438-448, PL xii. and xiii.). 



A well-preserved skeleton of the Gigantic Irish Deer, Cerviis (^Magaceros) dJibernicus 

 (part of the collection of the Earl of Enniskillen, obtained by purchase) has also been 

 mounted and placed with the other specimens in the centre of the Gallery. (This latter 

 example was obtained from the Bog of Enniscorthy, county Wexford, Ireland.) 



Upon the adjoining Columns are fixed examples of Ked-Deer and Reindeer Antlers : 



(1.) The antlers of 

 than 15 snags or bra 

 Ireland* (part of the 

 obtained by purchase). 



(1.) The antlers of a very aged Stag {Cervus elaphus,\Aur[.'), having no fewer 

 than 15 snags or branches, discovered in the bed of the Boyne, at Drogheda, 

 Ireland* (part of the collection of the late Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, Bart., m.p., 



(2.) The 



* Figured and described in " Owen's British Fossil Mammals," 1846, pp. 472-478, Fig. 196. 



