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ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Gault and Greensand Mollusca are being named and arranged. 

 The Silurian Mollusca have been examined, named and arranged. 



The British Collection of Brachiopoda are being mounted upon tablets, named and 

 labelled. 



The tableted Mollusca are as follows : — 



No. 



Cambrian and Silurian Table-case - - 89 314 specimens. 



Carboniferous (Brachiopoda), Table-case - 86 398 „ 



Pliocene, Crag-series - 102, 103, and 104 2,148 



Post-Pliocene, Glacial - - - - 104 997 



Total number mounted and named - - - 3,857 



Specimens named and ready for tableting : — 

 Gault and Upper Greensand 

 Post-Plioeene, Udde valla and "Wexford 



1,620 

 250 



1,870 



Echinodermnia. — The British Crinoidea, Blastoidea, and Cystoidea, comprising 578 

 specimens, have been named, tableted, and arranged. Those unexhibited have been 

 named and placed in cardboard trays, and arranged in drawers beneath table-cases. 



The foreign Crinoidea are in course of arrangement. Of these 694 specimens have 

 been mounted upon tablets, and temporarily placed in drawers until the completion of the 

 fittings of wall-cases 17 and 18, when they will be arranged therein. 



The larger Crinoids have been framed and arranged on back of the wall-case, with 

 printed labels attached to each specimen. 



The British Echinoidea, Asteroidea, Ophuiroidea, &c., have been named, mounted on 

 tablets, and arranged in the table-caset". 



The Tertiary and Cretaceous Comatulfdce, and the Foreign Tertiary Echinoidea, have 

 been similarly named, mounted, and arranged in table and wall-cases. 



Seven thousand nine hundred and twenty -five specimens have been identified and 

 labelled ; three thousand nine hundred and twentynine being mounted for exhibition, and 

 the remainder placed in card-trays in drawers beneath table-cases. 



Fossil Plants (Gallery No. 10.) — One hundred and fifty-five plant-remains, chiefly 

 Jurassic and Triassic, both from British and foreign localities, have been mounted upon 

 pedestals, and placed in the wall-cases on the east side of this Gallery. 



Two hundred and thirty-three British Oolitic Plants, forty -five Liassic, and one 

 hundred and twenty-six foreign Triassic plants, have been mounted upon tablets ready 

 for exhibition. 



Some large branches of Araucarif.es peregrinus, associated with numerous Ammonites 

 raricostatus, from the Lias of Lyme Regis, have been framed and mounted upon the wall 

 between Cases 13 and 14. 



A stem of Ciailiraria LyelJi, from the Wealden of Sussex, has been placed on the wall 

 between Cases 12 and 13. 



A fine group of leaves of Platanus, from the Eocene Volcanic deposits of Mull, has 

 been (ramed and placed upon the wall between Cases Nos. 11 and 12. 



Gallery No. 11. — Type-Collections. — The task of cleaning, preparing, naming, and 

 tableting the " Sowerby Collection " is being carefully carried out; the following groups 

 have been completed, viz,: — 



Eoraminifera - - - _ 



Actinozoa - _ - _ 



Echinodermata - - - - . 



Annelida ---__. 



Crustacea - _ . _ . 



Polyzoa ---__. 



Brachiopoda - - _ _ , 



Lamellibranchiata - - _ 



Total - 



- 76 



specimens. 



- 11 



53 



- 36 



JJ 



- 115 



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- 30 



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- 13 



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- 492 



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- 771 



„ (in progress). 



- 1,544 





