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A Polar Bear has been sent, through Mr. W. Foster, to the 

 Agricultural College of Asuncion, Paraguay, in exchange for 

 a number of small mammals. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



One hundred and eighty-seven separate works in 362 

 volumes, nev7 to the Library, and 1945 parts of periodicals 

 and works in progress have been acquired during the year by 

 purchase, presentation, and exchange. Some of these formed 

 part of the Library of the late Alexander Fry, and were 

 received from his executors, together with his collection of 

 Insects. Altogether, 154 works, represented by 611 volumes, 

 and 686 parts and extracts, were comprised in the Fry 

 bequest. Three hundred and eight books have been bound. 

 The Library now contains 10,910 separate works in 17,062 

 volumes. A collection of 278 folios of water-colour drawings 

 of Japanese Fishes has been presented by Mrs. Stoddart, and 

 four volumes of pencil drawings of Fishes of the Rio Negro 

 have been presented by Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. They 

 were made by him during his travels in South America 

 about 50 years ago. The former collection was made by 

 Mr. Stoddart during his residence in Nagasaki. The drawings 

 were prepared by Japanese artists, and are of interest 

 as representing the fish-fauna of that part of Japan, and 

 being coloured from living or freshly caught specimens, they 

 will prove a valuable aid to ichthyologists who may engage 

 in the study of the Japanese fish-fauna. 



Some of Dr. Wallace's drawings represent species as yet 

 undescribed, and serve to show the incompleteness of our 

 knowledge of the fishes of the Amazon and its tributaries. 

 This interesting series has been named, as far as possible, 

 by Mr. C. T. Regan. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues and other works published 

 by the Trustees, already mentioned, the following reports or 

 descriptive papers, based on specimens in the Collection, have 

 been prepared and published in scientific journals : — 



Mammalia. — " On Mammals and Birds from Japan " ; 

 "On a new Golden Mole from Cape Colony" ; "A new 

 Cricetulus from Mongolia " ; " The Nomenclature of the 

 Cranial Measurements " ; " On Mammals from the Island of 

 Fernando Po " ; " On a New Bush-Buck from British East 

 Africa" ; " On some Australasian Mammals" ; " Anew Genus 

 and two new Species of Bats " ; '' On a new Gazelle from 

 Palestine " ; " On Hylochcerus, the Forest Pig cf Central 

 Africa " ; " On some new Japanese Mammals " ;" On now Neo- 

 tropical Molossus, ConeiJatus, &c. " ; '' On a remarkable new 

 Squirrel from Burma " ; " New Ground- Squirrels of the Xerus 

 erythropus Group " ; " New African Mammals of the Genera 



