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16,238 volumes All the additions have been entered in the 

 registers, catalogued, stamped, press-marked and placed on 

 the shelves. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues published by the Trustees 

 mentioned in the earlier part of the Return, the following are 

 the most important reports or descriptive papers which have 

 been prepared by the staff in connection with the various 

 parts of the collection, especially recent acquisitions, and have 

 been published in scientific journals : — 



Mammalia. — ■" On the Proper Scientific Name of the 

 Weasel " ; " The Assogue (Putorius hihernicus), a peculiar 

 British Mammal " ; " On a Special Mountain-race of the 

 Plantain Squirrel from Mount Dulit, Sarawak " ; " On a new 

 Banded Mungoose from Somaliland " ; " On the Brush-tailed 

 Porcupine of Central Africa " ; " Description of a new species 

 of Helictis from Borneo " ; " Description of a new Chinese 

 Squirrel " ; " On small Mammals from Nicaragua and Bogota " ; 

 " Preliminary Diagnoses of new Mammals from Northern 

 Luzon, collected by Mr. John Whitehead " ; " On a new 

 Species of Eliurus " ; " On some Mammals collected on 

 Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux Group " ; " On some 

 Mammals collected by Dr. E. Modigliani in Sipora, Mentawei 

 Islands "; by Oldfield Thomas. 



Aves. — " On a collection of Birds made by Dr. Donaldson- 

 Smith during his recent expedition in Western Somaliland " ; 

 " On Micropus nehrkorni "; a " List of ParadiseidcB and Ptilo- 

 norhynchidce" ; " Myrmecocichla yerhuryi,s^.n.," by Dr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe ; "On two new species of Birds from the 

 Owen-Stanley Mountains" ; " On the Birds of the Philippine 

 Islands, Part III., The Mountains of the Province of Isabella in 

 the extreme north-east of Luzon, Pis, IV., V.; Part IV., The 

 Province of Albany, south-east Luzon, and the adjacent 

 island Catanduans ; Part V., The Highlands of the Province 

 of Lepanto, North Luzon, Pis. XII.-XIV." ; "On a new 

 species of Babbler {Twrdinulus ijuttaticollis) from the Miri 

 Hills to the North of Assam " ; " On a new species of Tit- 

 Babbler {Proparas austeni) from the Naga and Manipur 

 Hills " ; by W. R. Ogilvie Grant. 



Reptilia and Batrachia.—" On the Reptiles and Batra- 

 chians obtained by Captain Bottego in Somaliland and 

 Gallaland " ; " On the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith in Somaliland and the Galla Country " ; 

 " On the Reptiles and Batrachians obtained by Mr. Lort 

 Phillips in Somaliland " ; " On the American Box-Tortoises " ; 

 "On a collection of Reptiles and Batrachians from Fergusson 

 Island, British New Guinea" ; "Descriptions of new or little- 

 known Reptiles from the Niger " ; " Descriptions of new 



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