FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 43 



The most important gifts to the Heads and Horns Collection 

 were : 



Indian buffalo; Burmese banting; Turkestan sheep; Karelin 

 sheep; Livingstone suni; European red deer, from New Zea- 

 land; Astor markhor; sable antelope; Barren-Ground musk-ox; 

 Newfoundland caribou and blesbok, all from H. Casimir deRham. 



New Brunswick moose head, from Edwin C. Kent. 



White-tailed deer head, from George Bird GrinnelL 



Barasingha deer ; Congo buffalo, from Frank Hart. 



Bongo, from James L. Clark. 



LIBRARY 



The opening of the reading-room and stack-room, which 

 form the library accommodations of the Administration Build- 

 ing, has painfully emphasized the fact that thus far the Zoo- 

 logical Society possesses a library which is little more than a 

 nucleus. It is neither the intention nor the desire of your Com- 

 mittee to establish a library which will contain an immense num- 

 ber of books and pamphlets of value only to systematists. On the 

 other hand, there is a strong demand for what may well be called 

 a library of practical zoological knowledge, developed with espe- 

 cial reference to the actual needs of the public. It should include 

 all works that deal with the living fauna of the earth, but par- 

 ticularly the vertebrates and insects, because those forms to-day 

 are of the greatest importance to mankind. It is also desirable 

 that the library should contain the illustrated zoological works 

 that are calculated to be of practical assistance to artists, sculp- 

 tors and sportsmen, as well as to working zoologists. 



Funds to provide additional books are greatly needed as the 

 Library Fund on the first of the year contained only $1,776.49, 

 an amount quite sufficient to provide even for the immediate re- 

 quirements of the Society. 



MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 



The Medical Department has been especially fortunate dur- 

 ing the past year in that it has not been called upon to deal with 

 any serious epidemic among the mammal collections. The death 

 rate continues to remain at the low mark of the past few years. 

 The details of this department are clearly set forth in Dr. Blair's 

 report. 



