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Bristol, Cardiff, and Dundee, the Durham College of Science 

 and Art, the Yorkshire College, Leeds, the Museums of 

 Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester (Owen's College), 

 Newcastle, and of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 

 Duplicates have also been presented to the South African 

 Museum, to the Gordon Boys' Home, and to Professor 

 Agassiz ; and exchanges have been made with the following 

 institutions and individuals : — The Hope Museum, Oxford, 

 the Cambridge University Museum, the United States 

 National Museum, the Columbia University Museum, New 

 York, the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, the Indian 

 Museum, the Paris Museum, the Utrecht University 

 Museum, the Christiania Museum, the Imperial Academy 

 of Science, St. Petersburg, the Budapest Museum, the 

 Baffles Museum, Singapore, the Royal Siamese Museum, 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Victor Ritter von Yschusi zu 

 Schmidhaffen, Professor Stolzmann, Dr. Nobili, Dr. Sarasin, 

 Dr. Roeschke, Dr. Ohaus, Dr. Mason, Dr. Heath, Signor 

 Oigoux, Monsieur Rene Oberthiir, Messrs. M. Jacoby, F. A. 

 Fairlie, J. H. Fleming, F. Bates, and O. E. Janson. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Fifty-three separate works in fifty-seven volumes and 

 nine hundred and six new numbers of periodicals, and parts 

 of works in progress, obtained by purchase, presentation, 

 and exchange have been added to the Departmental Library, 

 and one hundred and thirty-six volumes have been bound. 

 The Library now contains 10,262 separate works, represented 

 by 17,102 volumes. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues already referred to, published 

 by the Trustees, the following reports and descriptive papers 

 have been prepared in connection with various parts of the 

 collection, especially recent acquisitions, and have been 

 published in scientific journals : — 



Mammalia.- — " On Mammals obtained by Mr. J. D. la Touche, 

 at Kuatun, N.W. Fohkien, China"; "On Small Mammals 

 from the District of Cuzco, Peru " ; "On a new species of 

 Marm^osa " ; " Descriptions of new Neotropical Mammals " ; 

 "Descriptions of new Rodents from the Orinoco and 

 Ecuador " ; by Oldfield Thomas. 



The following papers have also been based on specimens in 

 the collection :—" On the Carpus of Ctenomys" ; "On the 

 Prosimia rujipes of Gray " ; by C. I. Forsyth - Major. 

 " History of the Mammals obtained by Mr. R. McD. Hawker 

 in Somaliland " ; " On the Species of Canidse found on the 

 Continent of Africa " ; " On Chinese Mammals, principally 

 from Western Szechuen " ; " List of Mammals sent by 

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