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arrangement and contents of the Museum. Sir William is familiar 

 with the leading museums of the world, and his approval of what he 

 saw was a source of great pleasure to the members of the staff who 

 had the honoi of meeting him. 



A LARGE collection made by Mr. Jose Steinbach during the past 

 three 3^ears in eastern Bolivia has just been received. It consists 

 principally of birds, mammals, and insects of all orders. There are 

 about twenty-seven thousand insects in the collection, and more than 

 six hundred birds. 



From the United States National Museum we have received as a 

 gift from the Smithsonian Institution fifty-four skins and skulls of 

 African mammals collected by Col. Theodore Roosevelt on his ex- 

 pedition to East Africa. The collection consists principally of small 

 rodents, but includes the skin and skull of a specimen of Rhinoceros 

 bicornis. The rodents in a number of cases are cotypes of the species 

 recently described by Mr. Edmund Heller. 



