58 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Making about 200 casts of various objects, and colouring same either for the Museum- 

 cases or for exchanges with various Museums. 



Devek)ping and imbedding in frames for exhibition a large slab of footprints from the 

 Weaklen of Hastings; and a series of twelve large Gault Ammonites. 



A series of slabs of Plant-remains from Soleuhofen, from the Lias, and from the Leaf- 

 bed of Mull, &c. 



Developing and mounting on stands a series of large Ammonites from Porth-ind ; also 

 & &&y\qs, o\Macroscaphites, Crioceras, Toxoceras, tkc, i'vom the Greeusand, and two large 

 Cuttle-fishes from Solenhofen in Bavaria. 



Eepairing and remounting in glazed frame a large Hay, Spathohatis hugesiacus, from 

 Soleuhofen. 



Develoijing and mending a large series of Mammalian and Keptilian bones, a,lso 

 numerous Chelonian remains from the London Clay, and several Triassic reptilian 

 remains from South Africa. 



Developing and repairing numerous Fish-remains. 



Reducing and developing, also cutting and polishing many sections of shells of Cepha- 

 lopoda for the Collection. 



Cleanino-, mendin"-, and mounting in frames numerous Crinoidea, Asteroidea, and 

 Echinoids for exhibition. 



Making and polishing numerous sections of shells. 



Reducino-, developing, and mounting numerous Coal-plants for exhibition. 



Modellino- in plaster and building up a reproduction of a portion of the Bass-Rock for 

 the case of Ganuets in the Ornithological Gallery. 



Many hundred blocks Avith brass supports for large Ammonites and Plant-remains 

 have been prepared, and numerous stands for the exhibition of separate Mammalian and 

 Reptilian remains. 



ittie/s.— The work of printing labels for the various larger objects exhibited has been 

 constantly carried on throughout the year; no fewer than 12,290 labels having been set 

 up in type and printed. Many of these labels contain descriptions of special families, as 

 the Rhinoceroses, Hippopotami, Bovidaj, Cervidaj, &c., and contain as much as an 8vo. 

 page of printed matter or about 450 words. 



1. Bij Donation.— A. Vertebrata. 



(1.) Mammalia. — Three teeth oi Mastodon Cautleyi, from Pei-im Island, Gulf of Cambay ; 

 presented by Colonel J. W. Watson. 



The premaxillary portion of upper mandibles of Equus, from the Brickearth, Crayford, 

 Essex : presented by F. C. J. Spurrell, Esq., r.G.s. 



Numerous fragments of bones of Cervus elaphus, Bos, &c., from a Cave at Mentone ; 

 presented by Professor T. Rupert Jones, p.r.s. 



Fifteen specimens of bones and teeth of Arvicola, from the Pleistocene of Crayford, 

 Kent; presented by R. W. Cheadle, Esq., r.G.s. 



A complete skeleton of Dinoceras mirnhih (in papier mache), from the Eocene 

 Tertiary of Wyoming, North America; presented by Professor O. C. Marsh, m.a., 

 LL.D., r.G.s. 



(2.) Reptilia. — A coloured reproduction of skeleton of Actinodon Frossardi, Gaudry. 

 Lower Permian, Autun, Saone-et-Loire, France. The original (Figd. and descd. Nouv. 

 Archives du Museum, ser. 2, vol. x. 1887, pp. 9-19, pi. I.) is preserved in the Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Paris. 



Portion of skull of Garialis c/angeticus, from Perim Island ; presented by Colonel J. W. 

 Watson. 



A slab with footprints oi Iguanodon, from the Wealden, Hastings (Figd. and descd. in 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1854, vol. x., p. 456, pi. xix.) ; presented by S. Husbands 

 Beckles, Esq., r.R.s. 



Part of the skeleton of Flesiosaitrus philarchus (Seeley), from the Oxford Clay, Bedford; 

 presented by F. W. Crick, Esq. 



A series of Reptilian remains from the Secondary formations of Setubal, &c., Bahia, 

 Brazil; presented by J. Mawson, Esq., f.g.S. 



Greater portion of the skeleton of a species of Metriorhynclius ; also portions of a second 

 skull and mandible of same, from the Oxford Clay, Fletton, near Peterborough ; pre- 

 sented by Alfred N. Leeds, Esq. 



Casts of the skull and portions of the lower jaw of Capitosawus robustus, H. von 

 Meyer, from the Trias of Feuerbach, near Stuttgart ; presented by Dr. K. A. von Zittel, 

 Director of the Munich Museum. 



(3.) Pisces.— 



