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are being paid from a private subscription fund given to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for the purpose. 



The work on the collections in biology has been mainly of a routine 

 character, owing to the crowded condition of the older buildings 

 and the preparations for moving to the new one. For the same rea- 

 son but fcAV changes were made in the exhibition collections, although 

 the present installations were carefully maintained and to some ex- 

 tent imj^roved. Only a very few specimens were added, but a new 

 card catalogue of the entire exhibition series of mammals was nearly 

 completed at the close of the year. The head curator. Dr. Frederick 

 W. True, served during^ the vear as chairman of the Smithsonian 

 committee on publications. 



J/rt?n//iafe.— ;-Besides the accessions above noted, the division of 

 mammals received several important acquisitions. The skin and 

 skeleton of an adult male buffalo, in splendid condition, and also 

 several elk antlers were transmitted from the Yellowstone National 

 Park by the superintendent, Maj. H. C. Benson, U. S. Army. The 

 receipts from the National Zoological Park comprised 84 mammals, 

 including many large species such as the roedeer, carabao, orang, 

 Virginia deer, cougar, kangaroo, aouclad, lion, black bear, jDronghorn 

 antelope, bison, etc. Collecting trips for fossil cetaceans along the 

 Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, were continued in the autumn of 1008, 

 under the direction of the head curator, by Mr. William Palmer and 

 Mr. D. B. Mackie. A large amount of valuable material was ob- 

 tained, including many skulls, fragments of skulls, and other remains. 



Mr. Angel Cabrera, of Madrid, presented three Spanish mammals, 

 , including the type of a new species of squirrel, Sciuriis infuscatus, 

 which he had described. Another valuable lot of IG Spanish mam- 

 mals, comprising a roedeer, fox, badger, etc., were obtained in ex- 

 change from the Rev. Father Saturio Gonzales, of Santo Domingo de 

 Silos. Mr. E. R. Warren, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, transmitted 

 the type of a subsjjecies of chipmunk, named by him Eutamias quadri- 

 vittatus animosus, and the heirs of Dr. Robert J. Nevin contributed 

 15 mounted heads of large game, chiefly from South Africa. The 

 Marquis G. Doria, of Genoa, Italy, presented a very rare bat from 

 Peru, Amorphochilus schnablii. A skeleton of the dwarf carabao, or 

 tamarao, of Mindoro Island, was received as a donation from Mr. 

 M. L. Merritt, of Grundy Center, Iowa. Two goat antelopes and a 

 badger from western China were purchased of the Rev. W. W. Simp- 

 son, of Taochow, China, and there was also purchased the skeleton of 

 a killer whale from Barnegat, New Jersey, the only authentic speci- 

 men of the kind from the Atlantic coast of the United States in any 

 museum. 



The majority of the specimens in the collection of European mam- 

 mals, which number several thousand, were identified and labeled, a 



