DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



Department of Zoology. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia. 



Mammal Galleries. 



During the latter part of the year under review the 

 preparation of the Hume Bequest of Indian Big Game heads 

 for exhibition on the wall above the Banks Statue at the top 

 of the main staircase has been activel}^ pushed on ; but at the 

 time of writing this Return the actual installation had not been 

 commenced. 



Tsfo special alterations in the arrangement of the Mammal 

 Galleries have taken place during the year ; and work has 

 been confined in the main to the installation of new specimens, 

 and the rewriting and printing of such labels as required 

 modification in order to bring them up to date. 



A small case has been placed on the wail behind the Kudu 

 case, at the top of the staircase leading to the West Corridor, 

 to illustrate, by means of small diagrammatic models, the 

 variations in the direction of the spirals of the horns of the 

 Hollow-horned Ruminants. It is hoped that by this means a 

 difficult and complicated subject may be made plain to the 

 general public. 



The installation of black blinds in the Lower Gallery — in 

 order to preserve the specimens from the deleterious efi'ect of 

 light during the long summer mornings, before the opening of 

 the Museum, — and the structural alterations required for the 

 installation of Tobin Tubes have rendered it necessary to 

 remove many specimens and pictures temporarily from the 

 walls, and likewise to cover up some of the cases, but these 

 operations have not seriously interfered with the accessibility 

 of the exhibits as a whole. 



A new and revised edition of the Guide to the Specimens 

 of Anthropology, in the preparation of which the author 

 (Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S-) has been assisted by advice from 

 specialists in this country and in America, has been printed 

 during the year ; but no additions have been made to the 

 exhibited series in this part of the collection. 



The additions by presentation to the exhibited series in the 

 Mammal Galleries and Corridors include the following : — 



In the Primates, a male Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla) 

 presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., forms a 

 striking addition to the central case in the Upper Gallery ; the 

 same case also including an adult male Pig-tailed Macaque 

 {Macacus nemestrinus), the gift of W. J. Henning, Esq. To the 

 Rodent cases the only addition is a Red-fronted Ground Squirrel 

 {Xerus dahagalla rujifrons), presented by A. B. Percival, Esq. 

 An important addition to the Carnivora is a fine Clouded 



