CATALOG OF THE TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAM- 

 MALS IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL 

 MUSEUM, INCLUDING THE BIOLOGICAL SUR- 

 VEYS COLLECTION 



By Arthttr J. Poole and Viola S. Schantz 



INTRODUCTION 



This volume is a second catalog of the type specimens of recent 

 mammals in the United States National Museum, including those now 

 in the collections made by the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States 

 Department of the Interior.^ These collections are kept in separate 

 but adjoining laboratories in the Natural History Building of the 

 National Museum in "Washington. The present list records all the 

 type specimens in both collections at the end of 1940, a total of 2,824, 

 of which 1,409 are new additions since the publication of the first type 

 list in 1909.- Of these specimens 1,498 are in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum, and 1,326 are in that of the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 



As in the preparation of the previous edition of the type list, one 

 author has represented the Fish and Wildlife Service and the other the 

 National Museum. The senior author, A. J. Poole, died suddenly 

 on July 3, 1937, when this manuscript was yet uncompleted.^ 



The joint authorship has had correspondingly the joint direction 

 of Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., curator of mammals of the National Museum, 

 and Dr. Hartley H. T. Jackson, in charge of the section of biological 

 surveys. Division of Wildlife Research, Fish and Wildlife Service. 



1 The Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries were consolidated on June 

 30, 1940, under the name Fish and Wildlife Service, as an entity in the United States De- 

 partment of the Interior. 



^ Lyon, Marcus Ward, Jr., and Osgood, Wilfred Hudson, Catalogue of the type-specimens 

 of mammals in the United States National Museum, including the Biological Survey 

 collection. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 62, 325 pp., 1909. 



*For obituary see Schantz, Viola S., Journ. Mamm. 19 (2) : 277, 1938. 



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