78 ACCOUNTS, (fcC, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



(f.) Zoophyta. — A large slab of Coral Limestone from the Silurian, Gotland, and 

 two specimens of Asjyidisctis crlstatus, from the Cenomanien, Algeria. 



Five specimens of Thecosmilia anmdarls, from the Coralline Oolite, Weymouth. 



Thirteen Corals from the Chalk, and Neocomian, of Gravesend and Atherfield, &c. 



A specimen of Stenopora tamida, from the Calciferous Sandstone, Randerstein. 



A series of corals from the Wenlock Limestone, Dudley, part of Mr. John Gray's 

 collection ; also twenty sections of Palaeozoic Corals. 



One thousand and ninety-six Silurian and Ordovician Corals from Britain, Russia,, 

 and America. 



(g.) Protozoa. — Three Plocoscyphia and two Siphonia, from the Chalk, Dover. 

 Eight specimens of Cliona, from the Cretaceous, Aldershot, &c. 

 Fifty-one sponges from the Greensaud of Warminster, &e. 



(h.) Tracks. — Six specimens of Tracks, from the Cambrian of Sweden, and from 

 other localities. 



C. — Plants. 



A stem of Araucaryoxl yon from the Petrified Forest, Cairo. 



A remarkably fine series of remains of Cycadaceous Plants, Ferns, &c., from the 

 Wealden of Hastings, Sussex, numbering upwards of five hundred and sixty speci- 

 mens (part of the Ruff"ord Collection). 



Four specimens of Cycadeoldea nvegcdophylla , from thePortland Oolite, Portland, 

 also two stems of Ccdroxylon from the Purbeck beds, Portland. 



Eight Plants from the Coal-measures, New Pit, Camerton. 



A specimen of Araucarioxylon Withami, from the Calciferous Sandstone, Craig 

 leith. 



The total number of specimens acquired during the past year have been as fol- 

 lows : — 



A. Vertebrata : 

 By Donation ------- 49G 



„ Purchase - - - - - - - 1,133 



,, Exchange ------- G7 



1,G96 



B. Invertebrata : 



By Donation ------- 3,792 



„ Purchase ------- 3,787 



,, Exchange ------- 109 



C. Plants : 

 By Donation ------- 42 



,, Purchase ------- 706 



Exchange - 



7,688 



808 



Total - - - 10,192 



Exchanges : — 



1. An exchange has been effected with Prof. Dr. K. A. von Zittel on behalf of the 

 Munich University Museum, the British Museum having sent to Dr. Zittel 26 casts 

 of Mammalian and Reptilian fossils, and received in return 18 casts of figured fossils, 

 from the Munich Museum. 



2. Mr. C. D. WaJcott, on behalf of the United States Geological Survey, Washing- 

 on, having selected 57 duplicate fossils and casts from the British Museum, has sent 

 73 American fossils, chiefly Trilobites, in exchange. 



3. Professor Sordelli, on behalf of the Milan Museum, having sent to the Geological 

 Department casts of 17 separate bones of the foot of Megatherium, has received from 

 this Museum nine casts of figured Mammalian fossils in return. 



4. The Council of the Bristol Museum have sent 24 specimens of remains of 

 Ihecodontosaurus from the Trias of Clifton Down, Bristol; for which they have 

 received 200 duplicates from the Trustees of the British Museum. 



5. Dr. A. B. Meyer, Director of the Dresden Museum, having obtained from this 

 department a cast of the figured skull of Hemihos triguetrkornis, has sent in 

 exchange four casts of Mammalian brains. 



6. The Palseoiitological Museum, Strasburg, having requested a number of frag- 

 mentary teeth of Orodtis, Hyhodus, &c., to convert into microscopic sections have 

 sent m return 40 Selachian teeth from the Muschelkalk of Lorraine. 



Duplicates 



