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



IV. — Departmental Library. 



The library consisted, at the close of the year, of 6,556 works, represented by over 

 10,000 volumes; 1,274 works were added during the year, 2,450 volumes were stamped, 

 and 1,141 bound. 



The titles of all newly acquired woi'ks have been entered on slips in the Purchase 

 Book, and in the Libi-ary Catalogue, necessitating the transcription of 3,441 titles. The 

 press-marking and arrangement of the books have been carried on as in previous years. 



V. — Cataloguing. 



The following Catalogues have been issued during the year 1884 : — 



1. "Catalogue of Birds," Vol. IX., containing the Nectariniida; unA Melipliagid<e. 

 By Dr. Hans Gadow, (8vo. 310 pp., Avith 7 plates). 



2. '•' Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. ' Alert,' 1881-2," 8vo. (684 pp., with 54 plates). 



3. " Catalosue of the Books in the Department of Zoology." Third edition, 8 vo., 

 399 pp. 



In addition to the above catalogues, the manuscripts of the 10th volume of the " Cata- 

 logue of Birds," of the first volume of the second edition of the " Catalogue of Lizards," 

 and of the " Guide" to the collections of Mammalia and Reptilia.. illustrated with wood- 

 cuts, were completed and are now in the press. 



The following reports and descriptive papers in connection with various parts of the 

 collection, especially recent acquisitions, have been written by the departmental staff, 

 and published in scientific journals : — "Note on some East African Antelopes supposed 

 to be new" (Alcelaphns cokii and Gazelln thomsoni), by A. Giinther ; " On a collection 

 of Muridce from Central Peru," and " Description of a new species of Microgale" by 

 O. Thomas; " On an apparently new species of European Nuthatch (SUta vhiteheadi); " 

 " On further collections made by Mr. A. Goldie in the Astrolabe Mountains," and 

 "Notes on a collection of Birds made by Herr F. Bohndorflf in the Bahr el Ghazal 

 Province and the Nyam Nyam country in equatorial Africa," by R. B. Sharpe ; " Con- 

 tribution to our knowledge of Hydromedusa" by A. Giinther ; " Descriptions of new 

 Reptiles and Batrachians in the British Museum ; " Diagnoses of new Reptiles and 

 Batrachians from the Solomon Islands, collected by H. B. Gujjpy, Esq. ;" " On a collec- 

 tion of Frogs from Yurimaguas, Huallagu River ; " " On the existence of two kinds of 

 aquatic Frogs in North Germany ; " " On the origin of the Edible Frogs in England," 

 and " Notes on Batrachians," by G. A. Boulenger; "A revision of the Fishes of the 

 genera Sicydium and Lentipes, with descriptions of five new species," by W. R. O. Grant ; " 

 ^' An account of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca collected during the Voyage of the 

 ' Challenger,' " and " Diagnoses of new species of PleuroiomidcB" by E. A. Smith ; "On 

 the Lepidoptera from the Island of Nias ; " "•' On the Lepidoptera of the ' Challenger ' 

 Expedition, Part II. ; " " Description of five new species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera 

 from Yesso ; " " On a collection of Butterflies from the Fiji Islands; " " Descriptions of 

 three new species of Moths from tlie Island of Nias ; " " On new si^ecies of Lepidoptera 

 recently added to the collection of the British Museum ; " " Description of two new 

 Moths from Madagascar; " "On a collection of Lepidoptera from Aden made by Major 

 J. W. Yerbury," and " On the ScopeJo^les unicolur of Westwood and Walker," by A. G. 

 Butler ; " Notes on the Diptera of New Zealand," and " On the Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, 

 Diptera, and Orthoptera of the ' Challenger' Expedition," by W. F. Kirby; " On the 

 Coleopterous Insects collected by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Timor Laut Islands ; " 

 " Coleoptera collected during the Expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger,'" and " On the 

 Coleopterous genus Macrotoma^'' by C. O. Water-house ; " On some Crustaceans from 

 the Mauritius," by J, E. Miers ; "On the species of Oreaster '," ^' On Amphicyclus, a 

 new genus of Holothurians ; " " On the species of P seudoboletia ," and " Notes on the 

 spines of Cidarid^,^' by F. J. Bell ; '' On new Stylasterida^'' and " On the Ampullse of 

 the Milleporida,'" by J. J. Quelch ; " On the classificatory value of Growth and Budding 

 in the Mudreporida, and. On a new genus Anacroporu illustrating this point ; " " On 

 some structures liable to variation in the sub-family Astrangiacea,'"' and " Notes on 

 Sponges, with description of a new species," by S. O. Ridley. 



