DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 109 



Department of Zoology". 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia. — A heavy piece of work during the year has 

 been the numbering of the exhibited specimens — a task 

 which is still uncompleted, so far as the skulls and horns in 

 the lower gallery and corridors are concerned. 



In the upper gallery no noticeable change or alteration 

 has been made, work having been in the main confined to the 

 ordinary measures of conservation, labelling, &c. Two of the 

 wall-cases, namely, those on each side of the entrance, have, 

 however, been painted green. 



As regards the lower gallery and corridor, it was found 

 during the summer to be unsafe to continue to exhibit heads of 

 Deer in the east corridor unprotected by glass, owing to the 

 injuries resulting from moth. It was accordingly arranged to 

 alter two of the Deer cases on the north side of the lower gallery 

 in such a manner that accommodation could be found for 

 the specimens in the corridor. This was accomplished by 

 removing the partitions to the height of the main door, and 

 shifting the position of the partitions above that level. The 

 cases were then painted green (in place of white). A similar 

 treatment has been accorded to one of the adjacent Antelope 

 cases, with the result that not only has the general 

 appearance of the cases and their contained specimens been 

 greatly improved, but a considerable amount of valuable 

 space has been gained for exhibition purposes. 



Artificial ground work has been added to two deer-cases 

 and one of the Gazelle-cases, with highly satisfactory results. 



A large number of the labels in the lower gallery and 

 corridors have been re-printed or re- written, in order either to 

 bring them up to the present level of zoology or to render 

 them more easily legible. 



Among the presentations included in the exhibition series, 

 the following may be specially mentioned : — A Lion, a Chita, 

 a black-backed Jackal, an Oribi Antelope, and a Livingstone's 

 Antelope, presented by Allan Cameron, Esq. ; a Spanish 

 Lynx, presented by B. F. Buck, Esq. ; the type specimen of 

 the Ituri Black Honey-Badger or Ratel, presented by Major 

 P. H. G. Powell Cotton ; an Alaskan Elk, presented by the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild ; Head of an American Elk, pre- 

 sented by Frank Hutt, Esq. ; Head of a Cassiar Caribou, 

 presented by G. M. Norrie, Es^. ; a Cassiar and a Newfound- 

 land Caribou, presented by F. C. Selous, Esq. ; a Black-tailed 

 Deer, presented by W. R. Thompson, Esq. ; a Liu Kiu Sika 

 Deer, presented by His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G. ; 

 Head of a South American Marsh-deer, presented by A. F. 

 Vans Agnew, Esq. ; a Situtunga Antelope, presented by 

 Capt. J. Harington ; the type head of Vaughan's Kob 



