74 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Attendant in the Library, with the aid and supervision of 

 an Assistant, has checked all the entries o£ Zoological works in that 

 portion of the General Catalogue of Books which has been printed 

 during the year. 



Of the donations the following are worthy of special mention : — 

 The Birds of Australia, Vol. IV., parts 2 and 3 ; Vol. V., part 1 ; 

 presented by G. M. Matthews, Esq. 



Manuscript Catalogue of the specimens in the Zoological Society's 

 Museum : — Mammalia Catalogue, 5 vols. ; Osteological Catalogue, 

 1 Vol. ; 65 Manuscript Reports of the Curator of the Society's 

 Museum, Dec. 21st, 1836, to Jan. 1st, 1840 ; Manuscript Catalogue 

 of Skulls, 1 Vol. ; presented hy the Zoological Society of London. 



The most important addition by purchase during the year, was 

 made possible through the generosity of Mr. Alexander Reynell, 

 who allowed the Library to acquire his splendid copies of the first 

 and second issues of Swainson's Exotic Conchology. 



IV. — Puhlications. 



In addition to the Official Catalogues and other volumes pub- 

 lished by the Trustees {see pp. 60-62), various reports and descriptive 

 paper? have been prepared in connection with the different branches 

 of the collection, and have been published for the most part in 

 scientific journals. 



V. — A cquisitions* 



Mammalia. 



The total number of Mammals added during 1915 was 2,072, 

 of which 1,936 were donations, 134 were purchases, and 2 were 

 received in exchange. 



Special attention should be drawn to the Mammalia presented 

 by the Bombay Natural History Society in further continuance of 

 their Mammal Survey of the Indian Empire. The set presented, 

 which form a first and liberal selection from the much larger num^ber 

 collected, amounted in 1915 to 1,190 specimens, more than half of 

 the whole Mammal accessions of the year, and includes 40 types of 

 new species, besides fine series of many rare and little known forms 

 which had not previously been obtained since modern methods of 

 collection and study came into operation. The most notable series 

 included were 2&& from Ceylon, collected by Major E. W. Mayor ; 

 250 from the Chindwin River, Upper Burma (G. C. Shortridge 

 and S. A. Macmillan) ; 238 from Sikkim and 161 from Behar and 

 Orissa (C. A. Crump) ; and 128 from Sind (S. H. Prater). 



All the British collectors mentioned have now gone to the front, 

 but the Society is still making an effort to carry on the Survey by 

 the help of native workers. The Society also undertakes the 

 expense of publishing in its Journal a full account of the collections 

 made during the Survey. 



*A table showing the number of specimens added during the year is given on 

 page 82. 



