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



Mr. R. Kidston, f.g.s., has been engaged in tlie prepai-ation of a Catalogue of Palaeo 

 zoic Plants during the past two years. The work is now in the press. 



A small illustrated " Guide to the Collection of Fossil Fishes " is now in the press, and 

 will be ready for issue in February 1885. It is illustrated vvith fifty-nine woodcuts of 

 Fishes. 



II r. — Registration. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 

 Vertebrata : — 



Human Remains, &c. &c. - - - - 21 



Other Mammalia - ... - 1,607 



Aves -------- 53 



Keptilia -.--_- 265 



Pisces 1,103 



3,049 



Incertelirata : — 



Mollusca ------- 5,719 



Brachiopoda, &c. - - - - - 762 



Arthropoda ------ 674 



Annelida ------- 200 



Echinodermata - - - - - - 431 j^ 



Ccelenterata ------ 1,030 



Spongida, &c. ------ 837 



9,653 



Tracks, trails and markings - - - - - - - 19 



Fossil Plant-Remains -------- 1,924 



Total Number of Specimens Registered - - - 14,645 



IV. — Work of the Mason-Format(>re, mid Assistant 3Iason, ^c. 



The block of coral limestone containing the Guadaloupe human skeleton has been 

 greatly reduced in thickness, and the slab re-mounted in a lighter frame. The bones 

 have been cleaned and fui'ther developed. 



The cast of the Gh/ptodon has been re-mounted, repaired, and the carapace recoloured. 



The skeleton of Di.-iornis elejihantopus has been rejjaired and placed in its new case in 

 the Pavilion. 



The skull and lower jaw of Mastodon andium, taken out of its case to be moulded for 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney, and for the Oxford Museum, has been cleaned, 

 remounted on its stand, and replaced in its glazed exhibition-case in the south-east 

 Gallery. 



The restored cast of the skull and horn-cores of Sivnthcrium, having been found to be 

 incorrect, from the evidence of actual specimens, a new cast has been prepared, in which 

 the horns are believed to occupy their true position with ]-egard to the skull. 



A large series of Dinosaurian and Chelonian remains have been repaired and deve- 

 loped, and placed in the wall-cases of the Reptile Gallery. 



The almost entire skeleton of Scclidosaurjis occupied two months in its preparation for 

 exhibition. 



A skeleton of the gigantic Irish Deer, Cervus megaceros, obtained in a much broken 

 and very imperfect state (by transfer) from the India Museum, has been restored and 

 repaired, the missing bones replaced, and entirely remounted, for the Zoological Depart- 

 ment. 



A very large number of Fossil Fishes from the " Enniskillen " and " Egerton " Collec- 

 tions, also from the lower Carboniferous of Eskdale, and from the Cretaceous of the 

 Lebanon, Syria, have been reduced, repaired and mounted upon blocks or in frames for 

 exhibition. 



About 50 specimens have been provided with frames and embedded. 



Much time has been occupied in preparing casts and making moulds of various 

 vertebrate fossils. 



One hundred and seventy-six large Devonian and Silurian Corals have been mounted 

 by the Carpenter on blocks for exhibition in wall-cases of Gallery C. 



Two hundred and forty-five models of Foraminifera and numerous Chalk Sponges have 

 been mounted on plaster blocks for the wall-cases. 



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