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Two cabinets for storing small mammals have been added, 

 and two blocks of cabinets for storing medium-sized mammal 

 skins have also been acquired. 



The collections of New World Monkeys, Lemurs, small 

 Carnivora, and Ungulates have been entirely re-arranged. 



The Department is again indebted to volunteer helpers for 

 much valuable assistance in working out new forms of Mammals 

 and in the preparation of manuscript lists of various groups. 



The following should be specially mentioned in this con- 

 nection : — Mr. G. Blaine, Dr. K. Andersen, the late Major 

 G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton, Dr. R. E. 

 Drake-Brockman, Mr. T. B. Fry, and Miss Kathleen V. Ryley. 



The Department is further indebted to Mr. Gilbert Blaine 

 for having kindly continued his work with the manuscript List 

 of Ungulates, and for having assisted in the preparation of the 

 Second Volume of the Catalogue. 



In connection with the Bombay Natural History Society's 

 Survey of the Mammals of India, Miss Kathleen V. Ryley, in 

 the absence of Mr, R. C. Wroughton, has worked out the various 

 collections, published reports on them, and selected series for 

 registration. The thanks of the Department are due to Miss 

 Ryley for the great assistance thus rendered. 



The services of Dr. Knud Andersen have been continued 

 for the preparation of the second volume of the new Catalogue 

 of Bats. 



A Catalogue of the Heads and Horns of Indian Big Game, 

 bequeathed by A. O. Hume, C.B., to the British Museum 

 (Natural History), has been prepared by Mr. R. Lydekker, 

 E.R.S., and has been published by the Trustees. 



The first volume of the Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals, 

 by Mr, R. Lydekker, has been published ; the second volume is 

 now in the press, and will be published early in 1914. 



Osteological Room. — The arrangement of the skeleton-collec- 

 tion in the Osteological Room has made steady progress. A 

 new cabinet for the reception of large Ungulate skeletons has 

 been added, so that this group is now almost completely housed, 

 and for the first time in an easily accessible form. 



The Marsupials and Rodents have als(T been re-arranged in 

 cabinets. 



Various dissections and casts of Whale-paddles have been 

 made during the year, and casts have been taken of the heads 

 of smaller Cetacea. 



Work on Cetacea has been facilitated by an instruction to 

 Coast Guards issued by the Board of Trade in 1912, as the 

 result of which Whales and other Cetacea stranded on the 

 British coasts have been reported to the Museum by telegram. 

 Several interesting specimens have been acquired as the result 

 of the information thus given. 



