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School Natiual History Society, The Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 Victor Ritter von Tschiisi zu Schmidhoffen, Prof. Vayssiere, 

 Prof. L. Plate, Prof. Kraepelin, Prof. Robert Collett; Dr. F. 

 Werner, Dr. G. M. R. Levinson, Dr. Walther Horn, Herr 

 L. Henkel, Dr. W. Wolterstorff, Mons. Doumergue, Mons. 

 Rene Oberthiir, Mons. L. Clouet des Pesruches, Mr. Dudley 

 Le Souef, Mr. J. H. Fleming, Mr. D. Gavin, Mr. H. Fulton, 

 and Mrs. G. E. Mason. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Fifty-eight separate works in eighty volumes and nine 

 hundred and thirty-eight new numbers of periodicals, and 

 parts of works in progress, obtained by purchase, presenta- 

 tion, and exchange have been added to the Departmental 

 Library. One hundred and fifty-two volumes have been 

 bound, and eleven bound volumes have been presented. The 

 Library now contains 10,209 separate works, represented by 

 16,913 volumes. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues published by the Trustees, 

 which have been already referred to, the following reports and 

 descriptive papers, dealing with recent acquisitions, or other 

 wise connected with various parts of the collection, have been 

 prepared by the staff and published in scientific journals : — 



Mammalia. — "Descriptions of new Bornean and Sumatran 

 Mammals " ; " Description of a new Bat from Selangore " ; 

 " On new Mammals from Western Mexico and Lower Cali- 

 fornia " ; " On a new Subspecies of Giraffe from Nigeria " ; 

 " The Technical Names of British Mammals " ; " On the 

 Mammals collected during Captain Bottego's last Expedition 

 to Lake Rudolf and the Upper Sobat " ; " Notes on various 

 American Mammals"; "Description of a new Echimys from 

 Bogota"; "On Seven new Small Mammals from Ecuador 

 and Venezuela"; "On Indigenous Murida3 in the West 

 Indies " ; " On the Small Mammals collected by Dr. Borelli 

 in Bolivia and Northern Argentina " ; " On Mammals from 

 Chubat " ; and " Descriptions of Two New Cuscuses " by 

 Oldfield Thomas. 



The following papers should be mentioned as being based 

 on specimens in the collection: — "The Hares of Western 

 Europe and North Africa"; "Squirrels of West Africa"; 

 " A new genus and species of Rodents of the Family 

 Anomaluridse from West Africa" ; " A new species of 

 Shrew from Ashantee " ; by Mr. W. E. de Winton ; 

 " Notes on the Beech-Martens of the Palsearctic Region " ; 

 " Description of a new species of Hare from Algeria " ; 

 *' Note on the European Dormice of the Genera Muscardinus 



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