50 ACCOUNTS, &C,, OF THE BRITISH MUSEU 



M. 



II. Guides and Catalogues^ 



Dr. Hintle's " Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges in the British Museum" (4to), illustrated 

 by 38 lithographic plates, and with 297 pages of letterpress, was completed at the end of 

 tlie year, and will be shortly ready for issue to the public. 



III. Registration. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 

 Vertebrata : — 



Human Remains, &c. &c. - - - - 271 



Other Mammalia ----- 930 



Aves -------- 63 



Reptilia ------- 85 



Pisces 7,241 



8,590 



Invertehrata : — 



Mollusca - 1,380 



Molluscoida - 1,233 



Arthropoda - - - - - - 613 



Annelida ------- 33 



Echinodermata - - - - - - 186 



Zoantharia ------- 1,007 



Protozoa - - - - - - - 2,191 



6,643 



Fossil Plants 664 



Total Number of specimens registered - - - 15,897 



IV. Work of the Blason-Formatori, and Assistant-Mason. 



Several parts of the skeletons of Scelidotherium and Megatherium have been repaired 

 and re-mounted, and placed in Wall case 12, Pavilion. 



The skull, with tusks and lower jaw, of 3Iasf(>don Andium have been cleaned, repaired, 

 and restored, mounted on new ironwork supports, and transferred to new exhibition case. 



The skull of Diitolherium giganteum has been cleaned, repaired, and developed, and, 

 together with the plaster-restoration of the lower jaw, transferred to new glass case. 



The skeleton of the gigantic Irish Deer, Cervus (megaceros) hibernicus, Owen, acquired 

 with the Enniskillen Collection, has been set up and mounted upon new stand. 



The two original examples of the same Deer, T?f and O , have also been repaired and 

 transferred to new stands. ^ 



Two skulls and a cast of head of Ichthyosaurus from the Lias have been developed, 

 repaired, and transferred to new stands. 



Three sets of antlers, and one head and horns of Cervus elaphus have been mended, 

 mounted, and fixed upon the terra cotta columns in S.E. Gallery. 



Several Labyrinthodonts, and a skull of Tritijlodon from the Trias of South Africa, 

 have been developed and mended. 



A very large number of Fossil Fish-remains from the Enniskillen and Egerton Col- 

 lections have been i-epaired, developed, reduced, or mounted In frames for exhibition in 

 Gallery A. 



Cutting, polishing, developing, mending, and mounting Fossil Corals for exhibition- 

 cases in Gallery C. 



Casts and Moulds. — Two Formatorl (employed under Brucclani & Co.) have been 

 occupied for three months in examining the Store Casts and Moulds of Fossils, and 

 putting them In proper working order. 



The Mason, C. Barlow, has assisted in identifying these, and, when the work is 

 completed, a list of casts which can be supplied will be printed for the convenience of the 

 nubile. 



