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Gasteropoda and Lamellihratichiata. — Six Table-cases on the West side of Gallery 

 No. 8 are occupied with the Mollusca of the Wealden, Purbeck, Portland, Kelloway 

 Rock, the Corallian, Kimmeridgian, Oxfordian, the Great Ooli.'e, Inferior Oolite, and 

 Cornbrash. These have all now been very carefully tableted, named, and arranged, to 

 the number of about 4,000 specimens, whilst the drawers beneath contain about 2,800 

 study-specimens labelled and arranged. 



The Tertiary and Cretaceous Brnchiupoda on the East side to the number of 856 have 

 been all carefully named, mounted, and arranged for exhibition. 



Many thousand Class, family, and generic labels have been printed and Introduced into 

 all these cases. 



Uydrozoa, Spongida, and Foraminifera, West side. — Five hundred and fifty-two 

 printed labels have been attached to the larger specimens belonging to these groups 

 which are arranged in Wall-cases Nos. 6-9. 



Large printed labels have been prepared and fixed at the top of each door of all the 

 Wall-cases on the Western side of this Gallery. 



Porcelain labels have been fixed to the top of each Table-case on the West side, giving 

 a general title to the contents of each case. 



Fossil Plants. — Considerable progress has been made In the arrangement of the 

 Palaeozoic Plants from the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of the British 

 Islands. 



Table-cases 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 are completed, and contain nearly 1,000 specimens 

 named and mounted on tablets, with locality, and formation, and a reference given to the 

 work where figured. 



The Foreign series and large specimens in Wall-cases Nos. 17 and 18 only have been 

 mounted ; these number 276 examples named and arranged, and 84 large specimens. 



One thousand two hundred and twenty-seven specimens from the Staffordshire Coal- 

 field, chiefly from Coseley, have been named and registered from the Johnson Collection. 



Beneath the Table-cases 252 drawers of Fossil Plants, containing 2,803 specimens, have 

 been arranged for future reference, whilst other specimens have been transferred to 

 the Drawers of Duplicates for distribution. 



Type-Collectians. — The 16 Table-cases In this gallery are occupied with the following 

 collections, namely ; — 



1. That of the late S. V. Wood, f.g.s., illustrative of the Pliocene Molluscan fauna of 

 the Red and Coralline Crags of Suffolk and Essex, containing all the " types " or figured 

 specimens, used In his Memoir on the Crag, published by the Palseontographical Society 

 (1847-58). 



2. That of the late F. E. Edwards, f.g.s., illustrative of the Eocene Tertiary forma- 

 tions of the London area, Hampshire, Sussex, and the Isle of Wight ; published by the 

 Palaeontographical Society (1848-1858). 



3. That of the late J. and J. de Carle Sowerby, illustrative of their work, entitled, 

 *' Mineral Conchology of Great Britain," published In six volumes (1812 1845), with 648 

 plates. 



4. That of the late Thomas Davidson, LL.D., F.R.S. (presented in 1886 by his son), 

 comprising the " types " of his memoirs on " British Fossil Brachlopoda," in the volumes 

 of the Palseontographlcal Society (1850-1885), and In various other publications; also 

 those upon "Recent Brachlopoda," published in the Linnsean Transactions (1886-87). 



5. The " Gilbertson Collection " of fossils from the Carboniferous Limestone of 

 Yorkshire and Lancashire, containing the types of Prof. J. Phillips' work on the 

 " Geology of Yorkshire," Vol. II. 



6. That of William Smith, better known as " the Father of English Geology," author 

 of a work entitled "Strata Identified by means. of their organised fossils," 1814 (4to.) 

 This is the earliest collection of fossils made In this country. In which the various horizons 

 to which they severally belonged were carefully recorded, and the specimens figured with 

 their name, formation, and locality given. 



7. That of Mr. Charles Kbnlg, Illustrative of his work entitled, " Icones fossillum 

 sectiles," 1825 (folio). 



8. That of Dr. Brander, illustrative of his work, named " Fossilla Hantoniensia," 4to., 

 1766, being figures and descriptions of Eocene Mollusca from Barton, &c. 



9. That of Sir Hans Sloane, consisting of nearly 100 specimens, all that have been 

 identified by means of the numbers written upon them, or by labels, as having formed a 

 part of this original collection of Sir Hans Sloane (referred to in his MS. Catalogue), and 

 purchased for the Nation in 1754. 



The Lihiary.— The accessions to the Library each month are entered in a register 

 kept for that purpose, and all works are stamped, and press-marked immediately after 

 they are received. 



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