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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



Philadelphia to visit the Museum of the Academy of ISTatural Sciences 

 for the purpose of arranging for the transmission to Washington of 

 specimens belonging to the National Museum. Dr. A. C. Peale was 

 also detailed to assist in this work. 



On May 1 Dr. Stejneger left Washington for the purpose of visiting- 

 England and the continent of Europe, at his own expense, with a view 

 to examining, in certain European museums, types of American species 

 of reptiles and batrachians, and specimens of the birds and reptiles of 

 Japan and of the north Pacific coast and adjacent islands. Dr. Stejneger 

 attended the International Fisheries Exposition, which opened at Ber- 

 gen, Norway, on May 16, with the expectation also of attending the 

 Fourth International Zoological Congress, which convenes at Cam- 

 bridge, England, on August 23. He was especially requested to secure 

 information concerning new museum methods in northern Europe. 



Mr. F. A. Lucas, acting assistant curator of Vertebrate Fossils, 

 Journeyed to New Haven on May 4 to receive from Prof. O. C. Marsh 

 a number of fossil vertebrates for the Museum collection. 



TAXIDERMY AND OSTEOLOGY. 



Seventy-three mammals were received and skinned during the year. 

 A considerable proportion of these came from the National Zoological 

 Park, as shown in the following table: 



Mammals received in the flesh. 



From the 



Zoological 



Park. 



From 



other 



sources. 



Primates 



Carnivora... 

 TJngulata ... 

 Chiroptera. . 



Kodentia 



Marsupialia. 



Total.. 



42 



In addition, 35 other specimens were received and immediately turned 

 over to other departments of the Museum. 



Two large crocodiles were received from the Zoological Park. One 

 of these was skinned and preserved for mounting. A skin of an elk 

 was made up for the study series; also the skin of a kangaroo, the 

 skeleton being taken out entire in each instance. 



Sixty-eight skins were received, as follows: 



Carnivora 21 



Ungulata 2 



Rodciitia 44 



Cetacea 1 



Total 68 



