&C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



About 200 specimens of Corals have beeu cut by the Lapidary's wheel, and the sections 

 polished, in order to reveal their internal structure. 



Above 1,000 microscopic sections of Corals and Fossil-woods have been prepared and 

 mounted on glass for examination. 



A large number of Fossil-plants have been developed and reduced ready for exhibition. 



Several large Tertiary Polm-leaves (forming a part of the " Gardner Collection "j have 

 been carefully repaired and mounted in frames. 



A large series of the pyritized and perishable Fossil fruits and seeds, from the London 

 Clay, of Sheppc)', have been treated successfully with paraffin, and it is hoped their further 

 decomposition will be arrested. 



V. — Acquisitions. 



The principal additions to the Department during the past year are as follows : — 



1. By Donation. — A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — A skull of *S'm,v A'crw/a (/<??-«5 ?) dredged from the river Ouse. Pre- 

 sented by Major C. P. Lockner. 



Remains of Hippopotamus, &c. from the bed of a dried up stream, joining the Zambesi. 

 Presented by Sir John Kirk, k.c.m.g. 



Cast of the skull of Thylacoho caruifex, Owen (figured in Geol. Mag. 1883, pi. 

 vii.) ; also vemams of JJip?ofodo7i and Macropvs, from King's Creek, Queensland, Australia. 

 Presented by C. H. Hartmann, Esq. 



Twenty-one coloured casts of Mammalian remains from the Newer Miocene, Siwalik Hills, 

 India (figured and described in the " Palajontologia Indica," series x., vol. 2). 

 Presented by H. B. Medlicott, Esq., m.a., f.r.s., f.g.s. 



Six pieces of Bone-breccia from the cave of Mount Elias, Lebanon. Presented by 

 Sir William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Portions of Antlers of Cervus, and of teeth of Mastndon, from the B,ed Crag, Suffolk; 

 fine palate and mandible with the milk dentition of Elephas primigenius, Pleistocene, 

 Ilford, with numerous other I'emains of Eleph'is, Bos, Rhinoceros, Equus, &c. from 

 Weimar. Presented by Charles Westendarp, Esq. 



Humerus of a Feline aniiiial from the Forest-bed, Kessingland. Presented by Miss 

 Lucy Martineau. 



Skull and lower jaw of Badger, Mehs laxus, from the brick-earth, Grovehurst. 

 Presented by George Payne, Esq. 



Human remains from the river deposits, New Tilbury Dock (figured and described by 

 Sir R. Owen, k.c.b., in a pamphlet entitled " Antiquity of Man," 1884). Presented by 

 Col. Du Plat Taylor, C.B., for the East and West India Docks Company. 



Remains of Mylor/oii, from South America, Molars of Hyopotamus, from the Eocene, 

 Isle of Wight, and Bones of Mammals from the Norfolk Fens ; Tooth of Macacus pliocenus 

 <figured in Owen's British Fossil Mammals, pi. xlvi., figs. 1-3), from Pliocene, Grays, 

 Essex. Presented by Sir R. Owen, k.c.b. 



A set of ten casts of portions of skulls and lower jaws of Thylacoho carnifex, from 

 the Wellington Caves, New South Wales. Presented by the Trustees of the Sydney 

 Museum. 



Five teeth, a scapula, radius and one metacarpal of Rhinoceros and other Mammalian 

 remains from cave deposits and from the alluvial gold-washiugs in Upper Sarawak, Borneo. 

 Presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater, f.r.s. 



Unworn tooth of Hippopotamus from a cave under Stalagmite Pietermanus-fontein, 

 Cape of Good Hope. Presented by T. G. Bayfield, Esq, 



Thirty-three remains of Bcs, Cervus, and Cart/.f, from Pen Park Bone Cave, Gloucester- 

 shire. Presented by Spencer G. Perceval, Esq. 



C2,) Aves. — A perfect sternum of "Moa" {Dinornis dqjhantopus), from South Island, 

 New Zealand. Presented by John Davies Enys, Esq., F.G.S. 



Portions of pelvis and sacrum of a Bird, from the London Clay, of Sheppey, Presented 

 by W. H. Shrubsole, Esq., f.g.s. 



(3.) Reptilia. — Vertebra of Meyalai)ia, from King's Creek, Queensland, Australia. 

 Presented by C. H. Hartmann, Esq. 



Crocodilian remains, and remains of Trionyx from the bed of a dried up stream joining 

 the Zambesi. Presented by Sir John Kirk, k.c.m.g. 



Chclone in septarium, London Clay, Harwich ; bones and teeth of reptiles from Wey- 

 mouth and the Isle of Wight. Ophidian Vertebrai from Weimar, and egg of Turtle from 

 Isle of Ascension. Presented by Charles Westendarp, Esq. 



Metatarsal of Mrgalosaurus, from Great Oolite, Chipping Norton, Oxfordsiiire. 

 Presented by the Right Honourable the Earl of Ducie, r.u.s. 



Sixteen specimens of fossils, mostly small Reptilia, from Nova Scotia. Presented by 

 Sir William Dawson, C.M.G., ll.d., f.r.s. 



Vertebrae of Clidastes, plaster cast of humerus of Labyriuthodont reptile, with bones of 

 Teleosaurua, Plerodactylus, and other Saurian remains, from various localities. Presented 

 by Sir R. Owen, k.c.b., f.r.s. 



0.73. I 2 Remains 



