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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



partment of ornithology has been in- Much attention has been paid to the 

 creased by fifteen hundred bird skins, cataloguing and exhibition of speci- 

 obtained by Mr. Brenninger, largely in mens, some thirty thousand entries 

 New IVIexico, while numerous zoological : having been made during the year, and 



Virginia or Red Deer in Winter. 



The Transvaai, Zep.ra. 



specimens were obtained by Mr. Heller some hundred thousand cards written, 



on the Pacific coast. Additions have The sum of $26,000 has been spent on 



also been made to the department of new cases, and many of the collection* 



geology and in other directions. have been rearranged and new groups- 



