(14 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Echmodermnta. — The arrangement of this group has been commenced. The British 

 Palajozoic Crinoidea have been carefully examined and arranged. Those mounted, 

 to the number of 720 specimens, occupy two Table-cases, and are fixed ou 463 tablets, 

 duly labelled with name, formation, and locality, and when figured, a reference is given 

 to the work. Those not exhibited are contained in 43 drawers, and number 2,423 

 specimens. The&c have all been named and are put away in good order for reference by 

 the student. 



(Gallery No. 10.) — Fossil Plants. — The work of arranging the exhibited series of 

 palreozoic plants has been continued. Three hundred and fifty-two large specimens, both 

 British and foreign, from the Devonian and Carboniferous formations, have been specially 

 mounted on pedestal-blocks, to each of which a printed label has been affixed, giving the 

 o-enus and species, with the formation and locality whence the specimen was derived, tlie 

 figured specimens being distinguished by a small green disc. Ste Wall-cases 15, 16, 17, 

 and 18. 



Two hundred and forty-seven foreign plant-remains have been mounted on tablets and 

 inscribed with name, formation, and locality, and placed upon the sloping shelf of Wall- 

 case No. 16. 



One thousand three hundred British and foreign palajozoic plants have been arranged 

 for study in a series of 138 drawers beneath the Table-cases. A large number of dupli- 

 cates have been set aside for future distribution. 



A fine stem of a Lepldodendroid plant has been mounted on a mahogany stand, and 

 placed between Wall-cases 15 and 16. 



(Gallery No. 11.) Stratigraphical series. — This collection has been commenced in four 

 Wall-cases upon the West side of this Gallery. Four hundred specimens have been 

 placed upon the shelves according to their respective formations ; and 65 labels marking 

 oiF the formations have been prepared and fixed in place. 



Copies of nine descriptive labels have been printed and placed in the " Type- 

 collections " which occupy the sixteen Table-cases in this Gallery. 



A number of coloured maps and sections, prepared by William Smith, LL.D,, 

 illustrative of the Geology of England and Wales, also figures of fossils, have been 

 mounted in frames and placed upon the wall near the case containing his collection in 

 this Gallery. 



A copy of a Geologically Coloured Map of the British Islands, prepared by Prof. A. 

 C. Ramsay, has been framed and glazed and fixed upon the wall at the North end of the 

 Gallery. 



The series of Foot-prints {Ichnites) placed in Wall-cases IX. and X. have all been 

 identified and labels printed for the same. 



Departmental Library. — (Gallery No. 9.) 



Sixty-two Books and Memoirs have been bound. Numerous additions have been made 

 to the series of Geological maps, which are kept in good order and readily accessible to 

 students. 



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



By Purchase : — 



Serials -• - 248 



New Works 314 



Pamphlets ------- 183 



745 



By Donation : — 



Works - - - - - - - 21 



Pamphlets -------43 



64 



Total of Books 809 



By Purchase : — 



New Maps ------- 245 



Explanations --_._- 153 



398 



By Donation : — 



New Maps 14— 14 



Total of Maps, &c. 412 



Grand Total - - 1,221 



The cataloguing, stamping, and press-marking of all additions to the LIbrarv and to 

 the Maps has beer; regularly maintained. 



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