REPORT OF THE 

 PROSECTOR 



TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 



I 



BEG to submit the following- report of the operations of the 

 Prosector's Department for the calendar year 1916: 



Material received. — A total of 186 specimens divided as 

 follows : 



Primates 60 Marsupials 9 



Carnivores 42 Cetaceans 2 



Ungulates 12 Birds 24 



Rodents 21 Reptiles 13 



Edentates 3 



Total 186 



This material has, as in the past, been utilized for three 

 purposes : 



1, Investigatirm. — The receipt of some much desired forms, 

 especially among Primates and Marsupials, has enabled the De- 

 partment to practically complete the detailed work on the mor- 

 phology and phylogeny of the mammalian respiratory tract, 

 which has been prosecuted for a number of years. As soon as 

 the question of adequate illustration can be met satisfactorily, 

 the Memoir will be published through the Wistar Institute of 

 Philadelphia. 



A number of forms of great value and importance to the 

 continued investigation of the salivary structures were obtained 

 and prepared during the year. It is hoped that the Department 

 will be able to issue in the near future a publication supplemen- 

 tary to the volume which has already appeared on this subject. 



The brains of all specimens received in sufficiently fresh con- 

 dition have been intrusted to Professor Tilney for neurological 

 investigation. 



