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Two illustrated penny guides to the collection of special 

 bird groups were issued in April. 



The mammal series has been increased by a fine mounted 

 Giraffe, seventeen feet in height, the skin having been 

 presented by Major R. B. Muir last 3'ear. The animal is 

 a magnificent specimen, and in order that its proportions 

 and appearance can be better appreciated it has been set up 

 in the Entrance Hall. Mr. R. I. Pocock, of the London 

 Zoological Gardens, • enabled the Museum to acquire the 

 body of a Sumatran Rhinoceros, which has been set up by 

 Gerrard & Son, and is now on exhibition. 



The Loan Collections of " Big-Game " trophies have 

 received a welcome addition in a collection of British East 

 African heads, shot and loaned by Captain A. T. Cole, of 

 the 6th Dragoon Guards, " Carabiniers." Unusual good 

 fortune was experienced by Captain Cole during his hunting 

 trips, and the collection of heads is exceptionally fine. The 

 series includes examples of White-tailed Gnu (male and 

 female), Brindled Gnu (male and female), Eland, Wart-Hog, 

 Thomas's Cob, Gerenuk, Grant's Gazelle, Peter's Gazelle, 

 Thomson's Gazelle, Cumming's Bushbuck, Bohor Reed- 

 buck, Blessbok, Oribi, Lesser Kudu, Topi, Beisa, Jackson's 

 Hartebeest and Waterbuck. 



B. Bayley Worthington, Esq., has presented a set of six 

 mounted heads of East African Game, consisting of Water- 

 buck, Impala, Grant's Gazelle, Thomson's Gazelle, Speke's 

 Gazelle and Bohor Reedbuck. 



Mr. M. Bertish has presented six pairs of horns of African 

 Antelopes. To Mr. John E. Pritchard the Museum owes 

 the gift of a good example of the skull of the plateau type 

 of horse which was found in alluvium near the River 

 Frome. 



A portion of the large whale skeleton suspended from the 

 ceiling of the lower room was taken down early in the year, 

 the oil extracted, and the skeleton re-articulated. 



