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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1922. 



Tabular statement of the, growth of the collection (luring 1921-1922 as compared 

 rrith that of previous year. 



ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE, AND WHY. 



The great outstanding feature among this year's accessions is the 

 collection of about 100,000 insects of all orders made by Dr. W. M. 

 Mann in South America (chiefly in eastern Bolivia). In Alaska 

 another unusually important collection of insects was obtained by 

 Dr. John M. Aldrich. The final consignment of Mr. Hoy's Aus- 

 tralian material, presented by Dr. William L. Abbott and consisting 

 of 354 mammals, 105 birds, and other miscellaneous material, includ- 

 ing reptiles, fish, insects, mollusks, and marine invertebrates, brings 

 the important and successful Australian expedition to a close. 



Mammals. — By far the most important accession in the division 

 of mammals is represented by the shipment of 354 specimens col- 

 lected in North Queensland and on the island of Tasmania by 

 Charles M. Hoy and presented by Dr. William L. Abbott. With 

 this accession the total number of mammals taken by Mr. Hoy in 

 the Australian region is brought up to 1,179, including especially 

 valuable series of skeletal and embryological material. Other spe- 

 cially valuable accessions are the following: Seventy-seven mammals 

 from southern China, collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby and pre- 

 sented by Robert S. Clark ; 25 mammals collected in Africa by H. C. 

 Raven; skins and skulls of a mule deer, a mountain sheep, and the 

 skull of a mountain goat, all collected by Dr. Charles D. Walcott 

 in Alberta, Canada ; 2 skins. 2 skeletons, and 4 odd skulls of Virginia 

 deer collected by Arthur J. Poole in New Jersey; 10 skins and skulls 

 of rodents received in exchange from the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology; a solenodon and 17 bats from the Dominican Republic, 

 collected and presented by Dr. William M. Abbott. 



Birds.— After having been reported on by Dr. Frank M. Chapman, 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, the collection of 676 

 bird skins made by Edmund Heller in the Urubamba Valley, Peru, 



