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as compared with 108,022 in the year 1896. 



48,600 



„ 



1895. 



54,957 



,, 



1894. 



130,185 



n 



1893. 



76,011 



>» 



1892. 



48,771 





1891. 



77,658 



„ 



1890. 



69,270 



>» 



1889. 



44,081 



,, 



1888. 



Mammalia. — The accessions to the class have been two 

 thousand three hundred and thirty in number, nearly four 

 times the average number for the last twenty years. The 

 following are most worthy of mention : — 



Two skulls of Samoyedes from Dolgoi Island ; presented by 

 Henry J. Pearson, Esq. 



Thirty-three mammals from Silesia ; presented by Dr. 

 Edward Hamilton. 



Seven stags and goats from the Woburn Menagerie ; 

 presented by the Duke of Bedford. 



Fifteen mammals from Asiatic Russia, including two 

 Przewalski's Gazelles (Gazella przewalskii) ; received in 

 exchange from the St. Petersburg Museum. 



Ten skins and skulls of seals and sea-lions from the 

 Prybilof Islands ; presented by G. Barrett-Hamilton, Esq. 



Twenty-two mammals from Van, Kurdistan ; presented by 

 Major W. H. Williams, r.a. 



Thirteen mammals from Muscat ; including six specimens 

 of a new Gazelle (Gazella marica) ; presented by Dr. 

 A. S. G. Jayakar. 



Nineteen mammals from Algeria ; presented by the Rev. 

 A. E. Eaton. 



Twenty-three mammals from Somaliland, including the 

 type of a new Mungoose (Helogale atkinsoni) ; presented by 

 Dr. A. E. Atkinson. 



Fourteen mammals from Somaliland; presented by E. Lort- 

 Phillips, Esq. 



Three Gazelles {Gazella Isabella) from Suakin ; presented 

 by Maj. Sparkes and Surg.-Capt. C. Fleming. 



A lesser Kudu {Shepsiceros imherbis), and heads of Gazella 

 picticaudata, Cervicapra arundinum, and Kobus ellipsi- 

 prymnus ; presented by Messrs. R. Ward & Co. 



A Giraffe's skull, the typical skin of a new Gazelle {Gazella 

 natak), and casts of the typical skulls of Bubalis neumanni ; 

 presented by A. H. Neumann, Esq. 



Ten mammals from Kilima-njaro ; presented by W. Carlile 

 Eraser, Esq. 



A stuffed Lion from Machakos, killed by Dr. S. L. Hinde ; 

 purchased. 



Seventy-nine mammals from Como River, Gaboon, collected 

 by Mr. G. L. Bates ; purchased. 



