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American Salamander * {Amblystoma carolince) ; Menopoma * [Crypto- 

 hranchus alleghanyensis). 



Exchanges. 

 Practically no exchanges were made this year. Three specimens of 

 the Mud-fish {Pi'otopterus annectens) were presented to the Museum of 

 Comparative Anatomy, Oxford, and one to University College, Liverpool. 



MAYER MUSEUM. 



A great amount of the Director's time during the year has bad to be 

 devoted to the furnishing, fitting-up and anangeraent of the New 

 Ethnographical Gallery in the basement rooms. These rooms, after 

 being entirely gutted and the walls boarded with varnished pine, were 

 fitted throughout with cases of polished bay wood. The collections now 

 being exhibited in them, which have mostly till now been stored away 

 from want of room, are of great value, many of the specimens being 

 now almost impossible to obtain. The arrangement of these objects in 

 the cases is at present in active progress, and the gallery will, it is 

 anticipated, be opened to the public at an early date. 



Acquisitions. 



In this Museum these have been mainly ethnographical : — 



Woven garment worn bv the Loi Women ot the Island of Hainan, 

 South China ; presented by E. Harper Parker, H.B.M. Consul, Hoihow. 



Suit of Japanese Armour ; presented by Mr. George Brown. 



Photograph of Paiaguayan Lace, kindly allowed by Mrs. Goodwin, of 

 Buenos Ayres, to be made for the Museum. 



Wooden Mask, from New Ireland, with prominent eyes, nose, mouth 

 and projecting ornament, highly decorated in white, red, and black ; 

 purchased. 



Wooden Mask, from New Ireland, the face highly decorated in red, 

 white, and black colours, the eyes of molluscan opercula, and the head- 

 dress somewhat in the form of a "busby," one side of which is painted 

 white and studded with pieces of wood, the other ornamented with a 

 fringe of worsted ; purchased. 



Six Arrows from Santa Cruz ; purchased. 



Breast Ornament of Hippopotamus Tusk, from Lake Tanganyika, 

 Central Africa; purchased. 



