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skins has been installed in the taxidermist shop. This apparatus 

 has made it possible to have our tanning done under proper super- 

 vision and without submitting our specimens to the risks of a com- 

 mercial tannery. The advantages from all points of view can 

 scarcely be overestimated. The taxidermists have prepared about 

 200 skins for study specimens. Our regular force of preparators has 

 cleaned 309 skulls and 85 skeletons, while contract work has resulted 

 in the cleaning of 1,346 skulls and 107 skeletons. Work of this kind 

 is satisfactorily up to date. 



During the first half of the year an accurate count of the speci- 

 mens in the division was made. The results of this count are given 

 in the appended table. 



Specimens of mammals in the United States National Museum proper, Jan- 

 uary 31, 1922. 



Monotremata 



Marsupialia 



Dennoptera 



lasectivora 



Chiroptera 



Camivora 



Pinnipedia 



Lemuroidea 



Anthropoidea 



Rodentia (sciurine) 



Rodentia (murine) 



Rodentia ( miscellaneous) 



Lagomorpha 



Edentata 



Artiodactyla 



Perissodactyla 



Sirenia 



Cetacea 



Total 



Total. 



1. 



46 



,134 



143 



5,637 



15,403 



6,682 



1,350 



176 



1,683 



10,336 



25, 738 



1,434 



2,144 



291 



5,710 



446 



76 



840 



79, 269 



North 

 America , 



292 



2,651 

 9,901 

 4,501 

 1,267 



37 



7,047 



9,306 



707 



1,577 



86 

 2,427 



16 



24 

 787 



40,626 



South 



and 



Central 



America; 



West 



Indies. 



225 



7 

 781 

 244 



24 

 3 

 216 

 144 

 820 

 376 



34 

 171 

 182 



57 



11 

 7 



3,302 



Asia and 

 adjacent 

 islands. 



34 



143 



954 



3,026 



1,037 



58 



49 



983 



2,624 



6,717 



149 



308 



22 



1,523 



14 



40 



25 



17,706 



Africa 

 and 

 Mada- 

 gascar. 



780 

 897 

 625 



124 



447 



247 



5,476 



162 



70 



12 



1,518 



358 



1 



Austra- 

 lia and 

 adjacent 

 islands. 



46 

 583 



146 

 6 



181 

 '\"2 



10, 725 



968 



Europe. 



1,245 



652 



269 



1 



274 



3,2.38 



40 



153 



60 

 1 



9 



5,942 



I Introduction. 



Note.— Grand total, including specimens in Biological Survey, 204,534. There are 1,179 type specimens 

 in the collection of the United States National Museum proper, which are included in the above list. Total 

 type specimens, including Biological Survey, 1903. 



At the same time the Biological Survey took a census of the mam- 

 mals under its care, all of which are from North and Middle America, 

 with results as follows : 



Summary of mammals entered in catalogue of Biological Survey 

 collection, U. S. National Museum, up to January 15, 1922 : 



Total number of specimens 125,265 



Number of type specimens 724 



The two counts have made it possible to give for the first time a 

 reliable estimate of the actual number of mammals in the National 

 Museum at the close of a fiscal year — a total of no less than 205,201, 



