56 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THK BlUTISH MUSEUM. 



Mr. R. Kidston's Catalogue of Fossil Plants of the Palaeozoic rocks, commiienced in 

 1883, was completed this yeai% and is now ready for issue. It embraces the plant remains 

 from the Permian, the Carbcniferous, the Devonian and the Silurian formations. 



Messrs. Etheridge and Carpenter's Catalogue of the B/asloidea, or Ftntremitlda, an 

 extinct order of the Echinodermata from the palaaozoic rocks, is now in the printers' hands. 

 Twenty quarto plates for the same are also printed off. 



A new " Catalogue of Casts of Fossils,'' in the Geological Department, sold by 

 Brucciani & Co., has been drawn up and printed for the use of Museum Curators and 

 others. 



II r. — Re(jistration. 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 

 Vertebrata : — 



Human Remains, &c. &c. - - - - 443 



Other Mammalia 2,006 



Aves -------- 19 



Reptiha - - 214 



Pisces _------ 343 



3,025 



icertehrnia •-- 















Cephalopoda 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



2,462 



Gasteropoda 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



9,218 



LameDibranchiata 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



5,558 



Brachiopoda, &c. 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



7,432 



Arthropoda 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1,676 



Annelida - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



454 



Echinodermata - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



2,408 



Actinozoa - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



578 



Spongida, &c. 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1,808 



31,654 

 Fossil Plant-Remains _-._---_ 1,828 



Total Number of Specimens Registered - - - 36,507 



IV. — Work of the Mason- Formatore, and Assistant Mason, ^c. 



The skeleton of the llhylina has been fixed up in the S. E. Gallery by the Mason ; 

 some of the vertebrae of the caudal, series have been made good, and many of the bones 

 of the skeleton repaired. 



Tlhe mo(\e\ of Pelngosdiirus ivom Caen has been altered and set up in the Reptilian 

 Gallery D. 



The casts of the fore and hind limbs of /)z?ioce?-«s have been in part remodelled and 

 the legs set up on stands with iron--\vork supports in Pier-case 14, S. E. Gallery. 



Four skulls of existing Indian and African Elephants with lower-jaws have been 

 repaired and mounted on stands and placed in Pier-case 24. 



Numerous tusks of the Mammoth have also been carefully repaired and mounted and 

 placed in the upper compartment of the same case. 



A large series of molar teeth of various species of Proboscidea have been cleaned and 

 repaired and mounted on stands for the exhibited series on the north side of the S. E. 

 Gallery. 



A fine jaw of Hippopotamus from Barrington near Cambridge has been put together 

 and restore<l. 



The bones of the feet of a large series of Ungulata have been mounted on plaster- 

 stands for exhibition. 



The fore-leg of Bos primigenius has been completed and set up on a stand ready for 

 exhibition ; also the bones of the fore and hind foot of the Bison. 



Casts of the bones of the leg of two enormous specimens of Dinornis (figured and 

 desci'ibed by Sir Richard Owen) have been made good and set up on proper stands for 

 exhibition in the Pavilion. 



Numerous remains of Halitherivrn Schinzii have been mounted on boards for exhibition 

 in Pier-case 15. Moulds have been prepared and casts taken of various fossils from the 

 India Museum. Calcutta, sent to this country to be figured and afterwards returned. 

 Also of Mr. Beckles' specimen of the sternum of Iguunodon from the Wealden of Hastings, 

 and of the spine of Edestus from Australia. 



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