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Army, from his widow and daughters; the uniform and articles of 

 equipment of the late Alexander Macomb Mason (Bey), who, after 

 Serving in the navies of the Confederate States and Chile and the 

 navy and army of Egypt, held liigh civil positions under the Khe- 

 dive, from Mrs. M. B. Wheaton, of Washington; the silver-mounted 

 sword of Gen. Simon Bolivar, of Venezuela, given to him in 1828, 

 and a sword of Gen. Jose Antonio Paez, presented to him by King 

 William IV of England, from Mr. Jose Antonio Paez, of Staten 

 Island; the fatigue uniform coat and cap worn by Capt. Charles V. 

 Gridley, U. S. Navy, at the battle of Manila, from Mrs. Gridley; 

 many examples of the wearing apparel of the Colonial period in 

 Maryland, from Miss Bayard Smith, of Baltimore; and a collection 

 of early wearing apparel, arms, coins, and other objects, from Gen. 

 John Watts De Peyster, of New York. 



The Department of Biology as a whole received about 217,000 

 specimens, the principal increases as regards number of specimens 

 being in the divisions of plants, insects, and mollusks, though in 

 other divisions the additions were no less important. 



The division of mammals received two collections from Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott, the results of his own field work, the first consisting of 471 

 specimens, coming from the west coast of the Malay Peninsula and 

 adjacent islands and the Mergui Archipelago, the second of 517 

 specimens from Banka, Billiton, and the Karimata Islands. They 

 contain many species new to science. Next may be mentioned a 

 collection presented by Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, the product 

 of his explorations in the Philippine Islands, cliiefly on Mount Apo, 

 in southern Mindanao, which is sufficiently elevated to support a 

 fauna largely distinct from that of the remainder of the island, as 

 ma}^ be inferred from the fact that a study of the material disclosed 

 6 new genera and 25 new species, which have been described by 

 Doctor Mearns in the Proceedings of the Museum. Other note- 

 worthy additions comprised specimens from Switzerland, France, 

 and northern Italy, collected by Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., and Dr. 

 Leonhard Stejneger, of the Museum staff; from Sao Paulo, Brazil, 

 through Mr. A. Hempel; from Japan, through exchange with Mr. T. 

 Tsuchida; from the Kamerun district of west Africa, through Mr. 

 G. L. Bates, and from Bewean Island, Java Sea, through Mr. C. G. 

 Veth, American consular agent; a specimen of Potamogale velox, a 

 rare African insectivore, through Dr. Paul Matschie, of the Royal 

 Zoological Museum, Berlin; specimens from the Dismal Swamp, Vir- 

 ginia, and the Adirondack region of New York, collected by Dr. W. L. 

 Ralph. Many important species have also been obtained from the 

 National Zoological Park. 



The additions in the division of birds comprised much of impor- 

 tance, due, as in the case of mammals, to the receipt of several col- 



