SUMMARY OF THE TYPE-SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS IN THE UNITED 

 STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, (IROUPED \\Y AUTHORS AND BY 

 OOLLECTORS. 



The total nunil)or of type-specimens of mammals in the LTnited States National 

 Museum, as shown by the forej^oing catalogue, is 1,405. Of these, G92 are in the col- 

 lection of the Division of Mammals and 713 in the Biological Survey Collection. 



As a matter of some interest, the follo'ving tables have been prepared. They show 

 the respective number of type-specimens described by different authors, and similarly 

 the number collected by different persons. 



A large i)roportion of the types have been described by recent authors, who have 

 worked with large series of sjjecimens and with careful as well as modern methods of 

 discrimination. Nearly every prominent worker in the history of American mam- 

 malogy is represented. Thus, the list includes such well-known names as Audubon, 

 Bachman, Baird, Cassin, Cope, Cones, Kennicott, LeCcmte, and Peale, and others 

 equally i)rominent among the living zoologists. The list of collectors also includes 

 many highly honored names, especially of those connected with early government ex- 

 ploring expeditions and surveys. The large number of type-specimens of African 

 and Malayan mammals is due almost entirely to the enthtisiasm of Dr. W. L. Abbott, 

 who has devoted the best years of his life to exploring regions previously but little 

 known. He has generously presented his collections to the National Museum. Dr. 

 E. A. Mearns, U. S. A., has also been a generous contributor of specimens, especially 

 from the region of the Mexican boundary and from the Philippines. All the types 

 in the Biological Survey collection are the result of recent work, and a great majority 

 of them were collected and described by mammalogists on the staff of the Survey. 



Type-specimens not at present existing in the National Museum are not taken 

 into account in the following lists. The discrepancy between the number of authors 

 and the number of collectors is caused by the inchision of cotypes described by one 

 author, but collected by more than one person. 



AUTHORS W}1() U.WK DKSCinHKO TVPE-SI'ECIMEX.S OF MAMMALS IN THK UNITED STATES 

 NATIONAL MLSEIM, K.XCI.USIVE OF THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY COLLECTION. 



Dr. Harrison Allen 17 , Dr. Theodore Gill 6 



Dr. J. A. Allen 21 Dr. F. V. Hayden I 



Dr. Kiiud Andersen Robert Kennicott 4 



J(»hii James Audubon and Rev. .Joliii Major John Eatton LeConte, U. S. A. 11 



Bachman 1 



Dr. W O. Ayres 1 



Rev. John Bachman (see also Audu- 

 bon and Bachman ) 1 



Secretary S. F. Baird 57 



Dr. J. L. Berlandier 1 



John Cassin 1 



Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, jr. (see also 



Robinson and Lyon) 37 



Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A 77 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam 28 



Gerrit S. Miller, jr 317 



E. W. Nelson 7 



Wilfred H. Osgood 4 



Frank M. Chajmian 1 Titian R. Peale 10 



Dr. J. G. Cooper 1 Edward A. Preble I 



Prof. E. I). Cope 1 1 Dr. D. W. Prentiss, jr 1 



Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A 12 , James A. G. Rehn (see also Stone and 



Dr. W. II. Dall 2 ■> Rehn) 1 



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