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In addition to the above works, nearly the whole of the manuscript of the 12th volume 

 of the " Catalogue of Birds " has been passed through ihe press ; the " Catalogue of 

 Marsupialia," the 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th volumes of the "Catalogue of Birds" 

 have made progress, and the " Catalogue of Chelonians " has been commenced. 



The following are the most important reports or descriptive papers which have been 

 written by the departmental staff in connection with various parts of the collection, 

 especially recent acquisitions, and have been published in scientific journals :— " Report 

 on the Zoological Collection made by the Officers of H.M.S. ' Flying Fish ' at Christmas 

 Island, Indian Ocean," by the staff of the department. " On the small Mammaha 

 collected in Demerara by Mr. W . L. Sclater " ; " On the Bats collected by Mr. C. M. 

 Woodford in the Solomon Islands;" " On the Milk-dentition of the Koala"; " On the 

 Homologies and Succession of the Teeth in the DasynridcB^'' by O. Thomas. " Note on 

 a collection of Birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountains of Kina Balu, in 

 Northern Borneo, with descriptions of new species ; " " On a second collection of Birds 

 formed by Mr, L. Wray in the Mountains of Perak, Malay Peninsula;" "Note on 

 specimens in the Hume Collection of birds — On Syrnium maiucjayi; " " On a new species 

 of Calyptomena,''' by R. B. Sharpe. " A list of Birds collected by Mr. ('harles 

 Morris Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago," by W. R. O. Grant, " On twc 

 Europ'^an species of Bowbinator ;" " On the South African Tortoises allied to Testudo 

 geometrica "; " On a collection of Reptiles and Batrachians made by Mr. H. Fryer in the 

 Loo Choo Islands " ; " Second Contribution to the Herpetology of the Solomon Islands "; 

 " On new Batrachians from Malacca " ; '■ Synopsis of the Snakes of South Africa " ; 

 " Remarks on Dr. Strauch's Catalogue of the Geckos " ; " Les especes du genre Ophio- 

 more " ; "Notes on the Osteology of the genus Pla/ysterjiw/i" ; " Description of new 

 Reptiles and Batrachians in the British Museum " ; " On new Reptiles and Batrachians 

 from North Borneo " ; " Description of new or little-known South-American Frogs of 

 the genera Pahidicoht and Hyla" ; "A list of the Reptiles and Batrachians obtained near 

 Muscat, Arabia, and presented to the British Museum by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. 

 Jayakar"; "An account of the Scincoid Lizards of Burma"; "On the Systematic 

 position of the genus Miolania "; " On new Fishes from the lower Congo "; " On new 

 South- American Characinoid Fishes " ; " On new Siluroid Fishes from the Andes of 

 Columbia " ; " An account of the Fishes obtained by Mr. C. Buckley in Eastern Ecuador," 

 by G. A. Boulenger. " Report on the Deep Sea Fishes collected by H, M,S. ' Challenger,' " 

 by A. Giinther. " On the Mollusca collected at the Camaroon Mountains by H. H. 

 Johnston " ; '* Notes on a small collection of Shells from Loo Choo " ; " Description of 

 some new species of Land-shells from Sumatra, Java, and Borneo"; " JNotes on some 

 Land-shells from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, with descriptions of new species "; 

 "Notes on Argonauta hottgeri and on the Pearly Nautilus"; "Notes on Australian 

 species of Bithinia, Segmentina and Fusus, and description of a new Melania," by E. A. 

 Smith. "On a new genus and species of Polyzonidce" \ "On the classification of the 

 Diplopoda" by R. J. Pocock. "On new genera and species of BuprestidtB" ; "On 

 some Coleopterous Insects collected by 11. H. Johnston on the Camaroon Mountains " ; 

 " Note on a new Parasitic Dij^terous Insect of the family HippofioscidcB" ; "Descriptions 

 of new Coieoptera in the British Museum"; " Characters of undescribed Coleoptera in 

 the British Aluseum," by C. O, AVaterhouse. " A new genus of Fierincz allied to 

 Appias '' ; " On new Heterocerous Lepidoptera from the Solomon Islands " ; " On the 

 Lepidoptera collected by H. H. Johnston on the Camaroons and Rio del Rey," by A. G. 

 Butler. " Lists of the JEchinoderms of Ceylon and of the Andaman Islands " ; " Descrip- 

 tions of new species of Distomum, Nucleolites and Eicechinus," by F. J. Bell. " Report 

 on the Challenger Monaxonida," by S. Ridley and A. Dendy. " The Sponge Fauna 

 of Madras, a report on a collection of Sponges made in the neighbourhood of Madi-as by 

 Edgar Thurston, Esq." ; " Observations on the West Indian Chalininia, with descrip- 

 tions of new species " ; " On a remarkable new species of Cladoriza obtained by H.M.S. 

 'Challenger'"; "Studies on the comparative anatomy of Sponges, Part 1., on the 

 genera Ridleia, n. gen. and Quesillina, Norman," by A. Dendy. 



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