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of Palo Alto, and Mr. F. X. Williams of Honolulu. These 

 collections total many thousand specimens. 



The Department of Ornithology also has received a number 

 of important gifts of specimens of birds and birds' eggs, the 

 most valuable being a collection of 748 birds' eggs from Mrs. 

 C. A. Treuholtz of Oakland, another of 215 eggs from Mr. 

 Wm. H. Evermann of Burlington, Indiana, another of 103 

 eggs and 36 bird skins from Messrs. J. & J. W. Mailliard of 

 San Francisco. And, through the kindly interest of Mr.L. J. 

 Phelps, U. S. Customs Examiner, San Francisco, the Academy 

 has received 25 packages of egrettes, bird skins, and feathers 

 seized by the Customs office. 



The Department of Mammalogy has received a number of 

 notable gifts, the most important being : Five specimens of the 

 Stone or Black Sheep { Ovis stonei) . These were presented to 

 the Academy by Mr. H. O. Harrison of San Francisco who 

 obtained them in British Columbia. They are excellent ma- 

 terial for a fine habitat group. The Academy is also indebted 

 to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries for 14 fur seals from the 

 Pribilof Islands. Although these are seals found dead on the 

 rookeries they are nevertheless suitable material for a habitat 

 group. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. C. J. Albrecht of the Museum 

 of the University of Washington the Academy has received 

 five excellent specimens of the Roosevelt elk. And Mr. Leslie 

 Simson of Oakland has generously donated to the Academy the 

 following skins and skulls of Alaska mammals : three caribou, 

 3 Dall's sheep, 2 mountain goats and 1 moose. 



The most notable donations to the library have been the fol- 

 lowing: From Mr. L. E. Smith of Sisson, Cal., 164 books and 

 pamphlets; from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, through 

 Dr. Walter H. Evans of the Office of Experiment Stations, 

 266 volumes and reports of that office ; from ]\Ir. F. X. 

 Williams of Honolulu, 649 scientific books, pamphlets and 

 periodicals. 



To all of these donors who have so generously contributed to 

 the Museum's collections and library grateful acknowledgment 

 is made. 



