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



Two liundred and seven Eocene plants from Bournemouth, 404 Oligocene plants from 

 Chiavoni ; 629 Eocene plants from Gelinden, Sezanne and Cereste, 45 London Clay- 

 fruits from Sheppey, and four Tertiary plants from Madeira, 



One liundred and fifty-three plants from the Coal Measures of various localities. 



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



A, Vertebkata : 

 By Donation ------- 492 



Purchase ------ . 2,557 



B. Invertebrata : 

 By Donation ------- 2,252 



„ I'urchase ------- 2,921 



C. Plant2E : 

 By Donation - - - - - - 187 



„ Purchase - 1,602 



3,049 



5,173 



1,789 



Total - - - 10,01] 



VI, — Duplicates. 



A series of 992 specimens, being the second instalment of duplicates ordered by the 

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

 School of Science, has been supplied to that Institution. 



A series of 74 specimens has been transferred to the Museum of Bloemfontein, Orange 

 Free State, South Africa, in return for the skulls of Tritylodon, of Rhytidosteus, and 19 

 other fossils from the Triassic strata of that State. 



A collection numbering 849 specimens, has been ti-ausmitted to the Street Museum, 

 Somerset, in return for a very perfect specimen of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris from the 

 Lias of Street; presented by Alfred Gillett, Esq., of Overleigh. 



A series of 211 Fish-remains has been transferred to the Director of the Science and 

 Art Museum, Edinburgh, in exchange for a collection of specimens from the Carboni- 

 ferous formation of Scotland ; presented to the Trustees of the British Museum by the 

 Science and Art Department. 



VII. — Lectures, Demonstrations, and Visits of Classes and Students. 



Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., delivered his second annual course of twelve Swiney 

 Lectures on Geologij in the Lecture-room of the Museum, on " Fossil Reptilia and 

 Amphibia," from June 16th to July J 1th. Dr, Traquair also gave, after each lecture, 

 a demonstration at the cases in the Reptile Gallery (Gallery D). 



Dr. Woodward gave a lecture on " Fossil Fishes" to 123 members of the " Geologists' 

 Association," on Saturday, March 15th, 1884. He afterwards accompanied the members 

 round Gallery A, and pointed out some of the more important and interesting specimens 

 exhibited in the cases. 



A second lecture Avas delivered by Dr. Woodward to 120 members of the "Essex 

 Field Club " on Apiil 19th, on " Wingless Birds, Fossil and Recent." 



The members afterwards visited tlie Geological and Ornithological Galleries under 

 the guidance <)f Dr. Woodward and Mr. R. BoM'dler Sharpe. 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan and other lecturers have paid visits to the Geological 

 Galleries with their classes, and liave given demonstrations at the cases. 



The numbei- of visits from persons who have consulted the collections during the past 

 year for purposes of study, and who have been assisted by the staff in their special 

 -scientific work, was 1,991. 



14th January 1885. Henry Woodward. 



Department of Mineralogy. 



During the year 1884 the descriptive catalogue of the specimens of Acanthite, Tetra- 

 dymite, and Bournonite, has been completed, and that of the specimens of Pyrargyrite and 

 Proustite begun. 



In the laboratory 55 specimens have been analysed. 



Eiglity rock-sections lave been cut, polished, and mounted; 54 coral-sections have 

 been remounted for the Geological Department. 



The Index to the Mineral Collection has been revised and reprinted, 



A new 



