ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Six hundred fossil corals and sponges Lave been mounted upon plaster-blocks and 

 prepared for exhibition in wall-cases. 



Two hundred and fifty sections of sponges and corals have been cut and polished. 



One hundred and twenty microscopic sections of sponges, corals, fossil wood, &.C., have 

 been prepared and mounted on glass. 



Numerous large fossil-plants have been mounted in glass cases in Gallery C- 



Mending, mounting, and finishing off numeious reptilian and other fossil remains and 

 footprints placed in wall-cases on eastern side of Gallery No. 4. 



Developing and repairing numerous specimens both of Vertebrata and Invertebrata, and 

 mounting and jjveparing the same for exhibition in cases. 



Cleaning and preparing a large number of pyritized fruits from the Eocene of Sheppey, 

 and treating the same with paraffin so as to jjreserve them from decomposition. 



Packing up and remo'/al to the Natural History Museum of the remains of the Shorn- 

 den Icjuanodun from the Wealden of Hastings, 



Packing and removing the " Lee Collection " (consisting of 39 cabinets, and numerous 

 cases of fossils) from Torquay, and subsequent unpacking of the same at the Natural 

 History Museum. 



Overhauling and putting into order the moulds and store-casts of fossils, and affixing 

 labels with the number and name to each (corresponding with the newly-prepared Cata- 

 logue") for convenience of reference whenever a cast is needed. 



V. — Acquisitions. 

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



1. By Donation.— K. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — Three coloured casts of bones of Hipparion gracile from Pikermi. 

 Presented by Prof. A. Gaudry. 



The type-specimen of part of maxilla of young Elephas primi genius, with two milk 

 molars in situ, from Pin-Hole-Cave, Creswell Crags (figured by Owen, Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. 1885. Vol. xli, pi. p, 32). Presented by A. T. Metcalfe, Esq., r.G.S. 



A series of remains of Horse, Hippopotamus, Bison, Rhinoceros, Mammoth, Reindeer 

 and Hyaena, from the Creswell Caves. Presented by Prof. Boyd-Dawkins, M.A., f.r.s. 



One hundred and seventeen specimens of JBovidoe, Cervidce and Ursus, from Windy- 

 Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire. Presented by Prof- Boyd-Dawkins, m.a., f.r.s. 



Casts of four rami of lower jaws of Amphitherium Prevostii and ^. species, from the 

 Stonesfield Slate near Oxford. Presented by Prof. Prestwich, M.A., f.r.s. (from the 

 originals in the Oxford Museum). 



Portions of jaws and teeth of Arvicola ampliibia, and teeth of JSsox, &c., from the 

 Forest bed series. West Runcton, Norfolk. Presented by William Barker Esq. 



Nine molars of Elephas primigenius from Elton, S. of Peterborough. Presented by 

 Alfred N. Leeds, Esq. 



Six specimens of Mastodon {M. pandionis and M, perimetisis) figured in •' Palseontologia 

 Indica " ; also remains of Bramaiheriuni and of Hippotherium, from Perim Island. 

 Presented by H. H. the Maharaja of Bhanegar, Bombay. 



A series of mammalian remains, Hyasna, Rhinoceros, Horse, Keindeer, Mammoth, &c, 

 from the Coygan Cave, near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, and the right ramus of jaw of 

 Ursus urctos, from Whitesand Bay, St. David's. Presented by Dr. Henry Hicks, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Casts of bones and teeth oi Phascohmys cmvirostris and Macropus ajax, originals from 

 Caves on Darling Downs, Australia. Presented by E. P. Ramsay, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Portion of mandible of Thylacoleo camifex, from Bone Cave, Eton Vale, Darling Downs 

 Australia. Presented by George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S. 



A large series of teeth and bones of Lion, Wild cat, Hyjena, Wolf, Fox, Badger, Bear, 

 Deer, Rhinoceros, Mammoth, and Horse, from the Caves of Cae Gwyn, and Fynnon-Bueno, 

 in the Vale of Chv^d, North Wales. Presented by E. B. Luxmore, Esq., and Dr. Henry 

 Hicks, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Twenty-two mammalian fossils from the Eocene and Miocene formations of America. 

 Presented by R. Lydekker, Esq., b.a., f.G.s. 



Four hundred mammalian remains from the Starnbergersee and from the Kitchen 

 middens of Denmark. Thirty-seven mammalian remains from Norfolk Foi-est bed, and 

 other newer Tertiary deposits. One hundred and seventy-eight from Kent's Cavern, 

 Torquay, Gower Caves, Glamorganshire, and the Loess of Hessle. One hundred and 

 eighteen from Hempstead, Kelsey Plill, and the Loess of Binningen near Basle. Thirty 

 remains of Pulaothcrium, &c., Bohnerz, Germany. Thirteen remains of Cervus, Ursus, 

 jB(,'5, &c., from Ireland, Poland, Isle of Wight, &c. Presented by John Edward Lee, 

 F.S.A., F.G.S. 



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