68 ACCOUNTS, Sec, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A large number of books and memoirs have been prepared for binding. 

 Numerous additions have been made to the series of Geological maps, which are kept 

 in good order and are easily accessible for reference. 



The additions received during the year (principally by purchase) are as follows: — 



Serials ---------- 62 



New Works - - - - - - - - -116 



Pamphlets -------__ 43 



221 



Donations : — 



Prof. Morris's Bequest: — 



Pamphlets ------___ 226 



Dr. Davidson's I'equest : — 



Works ----------51 



Pamphlets -------__ 846 



1,123 



Dr. Davidson's MSS. and drawings of recent and) „ 



Fossil Brachiopoda - - . - . -J 8 vo. cases 26 

 Maps ----------53 



Explanations of Maps ------ - 27 



80 



Total - - l,4o0 



II. — Guides and Catalogues. 



The first edition of a guide to the I'^xhibition galleries of this Department (without 

 illustrations) was issued on 19th April 1881, price one penny. 



A second edition appeared in 1882, with 31 woodcuts, price threepence. 



A third edition (slightly altered) appeared in 1884. Of these three editions 11,234 

 copies have been sold. A fourth edition, entirely re-written and much enlarged (with 

 48 illustrations and a folding plan of the galleries), was issued in April 1886, price four- 

 pence. 



A catalogue of the Blastoidea, commenced in 1885, by Messrs. R. Etheridge, jun., and 

 P. Herbert Carpenter, d.sc, f.r.s., was issued in July 1886, pp. 322, 20 plates (4to.) 



A Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia, by Mr. E,. Lydekker, B.A., Part III. Perissodactyla, 

 Toxodoniia, Condi/larthra, and Amblypoda , pp. 199, with 30 woodcuts, appeared in April 

 1886. 



Part IV., Order Ungulata, sub-order Probuscidea, with 257 pages and 32 woodcuts 

 appeared in November 1886. 



III. — Registratioiu 



Specimens registered during the past year : — 



Vertebrata : — 



Human remains, &c. &c. - _ - 

 Other Mammalia - - _ - 



Aves ------- 



Keptilia ------ 



Pisces ---__- 



Jncertehrafo. ; — 



Cephalopoda 



Gasteropoda _ - _ _ _ 



LamelJibranchiata - - _ - 



Brachiopoda . - . - - 



Arthropoda - - - _ _ 

 Annelida ------ 



Echinodermata - - - - - 



Actinozoa - _ _ - _ _ 



Spongida, &c. - - _ _ _ 



Fossil Plant-remains - - - _ - 



Total Number of Specimens Registered 



17 





1,438 





34 





360 





545 







2,394 



1,366 



4,667 



' 



9,351 





2,097 





222 





110 





1,001 





376 





410 







19,600 





- 



- 7,933 



. . - 



29,927 



