CONTENTS 



The Year's Record 41 



The Reed-McMillin Collection... 43 



A Group of Gifts from Three Continents 57 



Twenty Trophies from Africa 59 



The Norton Gift 61 



The Rarest Bison Head 62 



A Trophy from the Harren Grounds 64 



A Magnificent Big-IIorn Head 66 



A New Subspecies of Takin 68 



The Kaegebehn Gifts 69 



Miscellaneous Gifts 73 



Classified List of Gifts to the National Collection from April 1st, 



1907, to July 1st, 1908 79 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



GIANT MOOSE ANTLERS, REED-McMiLLiN COLLECTION Frontispiece 



EMERSON McMiLLiN 43 



THE REED-McMiLLiN COLLECTION. PART 1 44 



THE REED-McMiLLiN COLLECTION. PART II 45 



ALASKAN MOOSE HEAD 47 



OSBORN CARIBOU HEAD 51 



BEAR HEADS 53 



THE GREAT ALASKAN BROWN BEAR SKIN 54 



PACIFIC WALRUS HEADS 55 



GUTS FROM JOHN R. BRADLEY 58 



AFRICAN ANTELOPE HEADS 60 



WOOD BISON HEAD 63 



BARREN GROUNDS MusK-Ox HEAD 65 



LOWER CALIFORNIA BIG-HORN HEAD 67 



MISCELLANEOUS GIFTS 70 



MISCELLANEOUS GIFTS '. 72 



REMARKABLE BEAR CLAW 75 



PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE, FROM MEXICO 77 



