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



Forty-five specimens of AnthrapnlcBmon from the Coal-Measures of Staffordshire. 

 Four specimens of " Indusial Limestone " from Vichy, Auvergne. 



A collection of 264 Insect and Crustacean remains from the Eocene, Gurnet Bay, near 

 Cowes, Isle of Wight. 



(3.) Echinodermata. — Slab of Melonifes niultipora, Lower Carboniferous, St. Louis, 

 Missouri, U.S.A. 



Eight Echinoderms from the Carboniferous of Eskdale, Scotland. 



A collection of 15 Crinoids and 17 Star-fishes from the Devonian of Bundenbach, Bir- 

 kenfield, Rhenish Prussia. 



(4.) Zoophyta-Zoantharia-rugosa. — Fifty-six polished sections of Corals from the De- 

 vonian, Torquay. 



Ten specimens of Fossil Corals, cut and polished, from the Devonian of Mudstone Bay, 

 &c., Devonshire. 



Fourteen Carboniferous Corals from Eskdale, Scotland. 



Two hundred and seventy-six Fossil Corals from various British and foreign localities, 

 and 104 prepared sections of Fossil Tabulate Corals. 



("5.) Hi/drozna. — One thousand four hundred specimens of Graptolilhes, Bi'itish and 

 foreign ; from the Lower Silurian of Scotland, the North of England, Canada and 

 Sweden. Figured and described by Prof. Nicholson in his Monograph (1872) ; also in 

 Quart. Journ., G. S. ; the Annals; and Geol. Mag. 



(6.) Protozoa. — Four specimens of Dictyophyton tuberosum, Chemung Group, Devonian, 

 Cohoctou, Heuben Co., New York, U.S.A. 



Four polished sections of Cretaceous Sponges. 



Four specimens of Sponges from the Green-sand, Isle of Wight. 



Foraminifera. — One hundred and twenty specimens, compi'ising the genera Nummulitas, 

 Orbitolites, Fusulina, Parktria, Coscinofora and Eozoon Canadense. 



By Purchase. — C. Plant.^;. 



Thirteen microscopically prepared sections of Fossil Wood, from the Coal-Measures, 

 Oldham. 



Two hundred Jurassic Plants from Sibei'ia, named by Dr. F. Schmidt, of the Academy 

 of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



Sixty Permian Plants from Gera. 



Seven Fossil Plants from the Staffordshire Coal-measures. 



Ten specimens of Fossil Fruits from the Gold-drifts, near Ballaarat, Victoria, Aus- 

 tralia 



A series of 15 Plant-remains from the Eocene, Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. 



Fourteen Plants from the Oolite, &c., Yorkshire, &c. 



Eigliteen Fossil Plants from the Coal-measures, Burdiehouse, &c. Scotland. 



Eighteen Plant-remains from the Coal-measures, Madeley-Court, Shropshire. 



The total number of acquisitions during the past year have been as follows: — 

 A. Vertebkata : 



By Donation ------- 1 ,047 



„ Purchase 3,703 



B. Invertebrata : 



By Donation - ----- 2,625 



„ l^irchase - - - - - - - 6,793 



C. Plantje : 

 By Donation ------- 52 



„ Purchase ------- 355 



4,750 



9,418 



407 



Total - - - 14,575 



VI. — Duplicates. 



A series of 420 specimens, being a first instalment of duplicates ordered by the Trustees 

 to be set aside for tlie Museum of the Royal School of Mines and the Normal School of 

 Science, have been supplied to that Institution. 



VII. — Lectures, Demonstrations, and Visits from Students. 



From the 5tli to the 29th June 1883, a course of 12 lectures, given under the Swiney 

 Bequest, by Dr. R. H. Traquair, f.r.s., f.g.s., on Fossil Fishes and their modern repre- 

 sentatives. 



