ACCOUiN'TS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(2.) The head, Avith the antlers and lower jaw of another individual from a bos; at 

 Toberscanovan, county Sligo, Ireland (Egerton Collection). 



(3.) A third and smaller pair, obtained at Edmundsea, near Waltham Abbey, 

 Government Ammunition Manufactory, and presented by Major Tovey, r.e. 



(4.) A fine pair of horns of the Norwegian Reindeer {Cervus tarandus), history 

 unknown. 



Fossil M arsupialia. — The Pavilion. — In Table-case 14a, on the north side of this 

 room, is placed an additional series of Marsupial remains from Darling Downs, Queens- 

 land, &c. ; presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, &c.. New 

 South Wales. 



Fossil. Edentata. — In the same Table-case, 14a, is placed a series of the detached scutes, 

 forming parts of the dermal covering of Glyptodon, Hoplophorus, and other extinct 

 species of giant Armadillos, from the Newer Tertiary deposits of South America. 



In Wall-case 12, on the north side of this room, has been placed a nearly perfect 

 example ot the bony tessellated cuirass of Hoplophorus ornatus, from the Tertiary deposits 

 of Buenos Ayi-es, South Amei'ica. The tail is a restoration. (Figured and described 

 by Professor H. Burmeister, Anales del Museo Publico de Hueuos Aires, 1871, Tom. 

 ii., p. 157, PI. xvii.) 



Fossil Birds. — A new upright glass-case on stand has been provided for the entire 

 skeleton of the "Elephant-footed Moa,'' from New Zealand, Dinoriiis elephantovus, 

 Owen (Zool. Trans. 1856). 



In Table-case 12a is arranged a series of skulls, vertebras, and other remains of various 

 species of " Moa " {Di/iornis), most of which have been figured and described by Pro- 

 fessor Owen in his great work on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand. 



In Table-case 12 has been placed a nearly perfect skeleton of the " Great Auk" ( Alca 

 impennis) obtained by Professor John Milne, r.G.s., from a peat-deposit on Funk 

 Island, 30 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. 



Fossil Replilia. — Three very large heads of Ichthyosaurus plolyodon, from the Lias of 

 Lyme Regis, Dorset ; [( 1 ), a reproduction of the great specimen, preserved in the hall of 

 the Geological Society of London, Burlington House ; (2), a very large and well-preserved 

 head, presented by F. Seymour Haden, Esq., r.R.C.S. ; (3), a larger, but less perfect 

 specimen (obtained by purchase)], have been provided with suitable stands, and are placed 

 in the narrow Corridor leading from the South-east Gallery (at the east end) into 

 Gallery D. (Reptilia). 



Gallery D. — The ceiling of this Gallery has been repainted, and the solid wood-tops 

 of all the Wall-cases have been removed and replaced by ground glass, thus affording a 

 much better light than heretofore for the objects exhibited. 



A coloured cast of Rhamphorhynchus phylluriis (Marsh), from the Lithographic stone, 

 Solenhofen, presented by Professor O. C. Marsh, Ai.A., F.G.S. (and figured and described 

 by hiiQ in Silliman's American Journal of Science, 1882, vol. xxiii, No. 106 ; see also 

 Geological Magazine, 1882, vol. 19, pp. 205-210), is placed in Wall-case 1. 



An exquisite cast of the small but perfect Pterodactylus longirostris (Cuvier j, from the 

 lithographic stone, Eichstadt (the original preserved in the Munich Museum), has been 

 acquired by purchase, and is placed in Table-case No. 1. 



A coloured plaster reproduction of the colossal thigh-bone of a huge Dinosaurian 

 Reptile, Atlantosaurus immanis, Marsh, presented by Professor O. C. Marsh, m.a., f.g.S., 

 is placed in Wall-case No. 5 (it was figured and described in Silliman's American 

 Journal of Science for 1878, p. 240) ; original from the Jurassic formation, Colorado, 

 North America. (Length of femur, 6' 3", circumference of shaft, 3' 5"). 



An almost entire skeleton of a small Dinosaur, named Hypsilopiiodon Foxii, Huxley, 

 preserved in a block of sandstone from the Wealden formation, Cowleaze Chine, Brixton, 

 Isle of Wight (which has lately been most carefully developed by the mason, Barlow), 

 described and figured by Mr. J. W. Hulke, f.r.s.. President Geological Society, 

 London, in the Phil. Trans, for 1883 (Vol. 173, pp. 1055-1057, PI. 72, fig. 2; PI. 75 

 and 79, fig. 3), part of the late Rev. W. Fox's collection (obtained by purchase), has been 

 placed under a Glass-case in the centre of the Reptile Gallery. 



West Gallery of Communication. — This Gallery, which is 33 feet in length 

 (originally quite a dark passage, with verij small and heavy mullioned windows) has now 

 been roof-lighted, the side-windows bricked up solid, and concealed behind two fine 

 Wall-cases, one on either side, intended to receive the whole of the fossil Chelonia 

 and Labyrinthodonts, and so to afford the necessary space in Gallery D., for the 

 exhibition of the large series of Dinosaurian i-emains at present only very imperfectly 

 displayed. 



Fossil Fishes. — Gallery A. — The entire collections of the Earl of Enniskillen, f.r.s., 

 and of the late Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, Bart., m.p. (acquired by purchase in 1882) 

 have been incorporated with the pre-existing fossil Fish-collection ; the duplicates have 

 been, to a great extent, eliminated, and set apart for exchanges or for dis(;ribution to other 

 Museums. 



0.6;^. F 4 Wall-cases 



