REPORT ON THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
551 
or in parts of tlie Museum not accessible to the public, are well ar¬ 
ranged for study by scientific visitors. 
The series of the Mineralogy is in a good state of preservation, 
and in an improved state of arrangement, display, and classification. 
The additions in the year 1862 to the Department of Zoology are 
13,129 in number, and some of the more interesting specimens are 
noticed in the report from that department. The Troglodytes vel - 
lerosus , Gray, discovered by Captain Burton in the Cameroon 
Mountains of W. Tropical Africa, is a specimen of the adult male, 
and forms an instructive addition to the present rich series of the 
Anthropoid apes. 
Amongst the additions to the class Beptilia is a new tortoise, 
Cyclemys Mouhotii , discovered by M. Mouhot in the Lao Mountains 
of Cochin China. 
The Crocodilus Siamensis, known to, and specified by Cuvier, 
from a skull in the Paris Museum, is now represented in the British 
Museum by a perfect example, as are also the new species, Croco¬ 
dilus pondicerianus , Jacare longiscutata , and J. ocellata. A repre¬ 
sentative of a new genus ( Chloroscartes) of lizard has been obtained 
from the Feejee Islands. Two remarkable forms of innocuous snakes, 
Cercocalamus and Brachyurophis , have been obtained from Central 
America; and from Africa a genus of viper ( Poecilostolus ), living on 
trees, which was discovered by Captain Burton in the Cameroon 
district. In the order Batrachia the Museum has acquired from 
Australia representatives of the genera Blatyplectrum and Cryptotis, 
and several new species of Limnodynastes. 
Of the additions to the class of Fishes , 1911 in number, during 
the past year, a few only are dried skins ; the rest being entire ani¬ 
mals, preserved in spirits. Dr. Gunther has determined and de¬ 
scribed more than 150 new species ; 128 examples of fishes have 
been added to the British Collection, a part of which were new to it, 
whilst the other species, now well exemplified, had been insufficiently 
represented by dried skins or deteriorated specimens. 
Other valuable collections have been received from Lapland and 
Sweden, through a collector, Mr. Wheelwright; those specimens 
illustrate the differences between allied species occurring on the 
Continent as well as on the British Islands. 
G. Y. Johnson, Esq., has continued to collect in the seas of 
Madeira; his collections are distinguished not only by the beautiful 
state of preservation of the specimens, but also by the discovery of 
several entirely new and highly interesting forms {Setarches, 
Nesiarchus , &c.). 
From the Mediterranean several collections have been received 
through Dr. Gulia of Malta, and Dr. Th. Gunther, besides some 
smaller additions. 
Asia. —-The fresh water fishes of the Holy Land are still desi¬ 
derata in the National Collection. 
