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trips he generously took Mr. Rehn of the Academy staff with him 

 and shared his collections with the institution. 



Local trips were taken by other members of the staff which resulted 

 in the acquirement of much valuable material while collections be- 

 longing to other institutions or individuals were identified by our 

 specialists in return for a series of the duplicates. 



The details of work in the several departments of the museum 

 follow : 



Mammals. 



As in previous years many valuable specimens were received from 

 the Zoological Society of Philadelphia which have been prepared as 

 skins, or skeletons. The taxidermist Mr. McCadden has been con- 

 stantly engaged upon the preparation of such material and in the 

 cleaning of skeletons obtained in previous years. A large number 

 of such osteological material has thus been added to the study series, 

 and an African Wart Hog and Kinhajou have been mounted during 

 the year. 



Specimens were loaned to E. W. Nelson. 



Birds. 



A number of valuable local nests and sets of eggs were added to the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club Collection, while to the study 

 collection of skins the most notable accessions were a large series of 

 Colombian birds obtained by purchase from M. A. Carriker; a num- 

 ber of skins from French Guiana and Senegambia presented by the 

 Philadelphia Museums, a collection of local birds, mainly mounted, 

 from Mr. E. W. Woolman and some 200 specimens from Arizona 

 collected by Dr. Stone. 



Considerable rearrangement of the study collection was accomp- 

 lished during the year and much miscellaneous material mounted 

 and unmounted made readily available. 



Many specimens received from the Zoological Society were pre- 

 pared either as skins or osteological specimens which were catalogued 

 and added to the series. 



Many ornithologists have studied the collections during the year 

 and specimens were loaned to H. C. Oberholser, and C. B. Cory. 



Reptiles and Fishes. 

 Mr. Henry W. Fowler who has continued in charge of this depart- 

 ment reports that a large number of specimens have been received 

 during the year, notable among which have been 30 specimens of 



