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Department of Zoology. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation, 

 Mammalia. 



Mar}imal Galleries. 



During the year the rearrangement of the Rodents in their 

 new position in the Upper Gallery has been completed, with 

 manifest advantage from the exhibition point of view, as such 

 relatively small animals show much better in the cases in this 

 gallery than in the larger ones below. Many of the labels 

 have also been reprinted, as it was found by experience that 

 the small type selected by Sir William Flower for the smaller 

 specimens was difficult to read. Many of the descriptive labels 

 in both galleries have also been reprinted, in order to bring 

 them up to date. 



In the Lower Mammal Gallery little has been required in 

 the way of rearrangement ; the most important alterations 

 being the fitting of partitions in the big Sheep case and in the 

 Wild Goat case, for the purpose of displaying specimens in a 

 better light than was previously possible. 



In the East Corridor the Ehodesian Giraffe presented by 

 Mr. Thornicroft has been put in position in the big case at the 

 top of the staircase, and the ground-work has been rearranged. 

 It was hoped that this would only involve the removal from 

 the case of the small Kilimanjaro Giraffe (for the exhibition of 

 which arrangements had already been made) ; but when the 

 new specimen was put in position, the case looked overcrowded, 

 and it became necessary to remove the Nigerian Giraffe as well. 

 The latter must therefore stand unprotected in the Corridor, 

 until other arrangements can be made. 



The additions to the Galleries during the year include the 

 following specimens, among which special attention may be 

 ■directed to the Gribble Island Bear, the Shen-si Takin, and 

 the Ehodesian Gira.ffe : — A Gribble Island White Bear (Ursus 

 kermodei), presented by the Government of British Columbia. 

 Head of Ankole Buffalo (Bos caj^er radcliffei), presented by 

 H. G. Barclay, Esq. Head of Senegambian Buffalo (Bos caffer 

 planiceros), the gift of G. Fenwick Owen, Esq. Heads of an 

 Afghan Urial (Ovis vignei hlanfordi) and a Cabul Markhoi 

 (Capra falconeri megaceros), from Chitral, presented by 

 Captain R. A. Lyall. Head of Suleman Markhor (Capra 

 falconeri jerdoni), presented by Major R. L. Kennion. A 

 complete specimen of the new Shen-si Takin (Budorcas 

 hedfordi), the gift of the Duke of Bedford, K.G. A Weyns's 

 Duiker (CejjJKdophus weynsi), presented by Dr. C. C. Christy. 

 A Phillips' h\k-^\k(Madoq%ia 'philUpsi), presented by Dr. R. E. 

 Drake-Brockman. A Four-horned Antelope (Tetraceros quad- 

 ricornis), given by the Bombay Natural History Society. Head 

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