DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Ninety-seven separate works in 112 volumes, new to the 

 Library, and 1,453 parts of periodicals and works in progress 

 have been acquired during the year, by purchase, presentation, 

 and exchange. 



Two hundred and seventy-two books have been bound. 

 The Library now contains 11,239 separate works in IS, 171 

 volumes. 



At a meeting held on November 28, 1908, the Trustees 

 decided that the Library is to be moved from the South-West 

 Basement Corridor to the Fish Reserve Gallery on the ground 

 floor. This alteration, when carried out, will afford some 

 additional accommodation for the study collection of Insects, 

 and will add greatly to the convenience of the arrangements 

 in the Insect Section. 



IV. — Independent Publications. 



In addition to the official Catalogues and other volumes 

 published by the Trustees, already mentioned, various reports 

 and descriptive papers have been prepared in connection with 

 the different branches of the collection, and have been published 

 in scientiHc journals. 



For convenience of reference the following list is 

 appended : — 



Mammalia. — " The Nomenclature of certain Lorises " ; 

 " A new Deer of the Brocket Group of Venezuela " ; " The 

 Genera and Subgenera of the Sciuropterus Group " ; " Four 

 new Amazonian Monkeys " ; " The Nomenclature of the Flying 

 Lemurs " ; " On certain African and South American Otters " 

 " The missing Premolar of the Chiroptera " ; " New Asiatic 

 Apodemus, Evotomys, and Lepus " ; " The Psammomys of the 

 Alluvial Soil of the Nile Delta " ; " Three new African Species 

 of Mus " ; " The Species of the Genus Dactylopsila " ; " Note 

 on the Squirrel-Genus Zetis " ; " On Mammals from the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands " ; "A new Jerboa from China " ; "A 

 new Akodon from Tierra del Fuego " ; " The Squirrels described 

 as Sciurus steerii from Balabac and Palawan " ; "A new Tree- 

 Kangaroo from British New Guinea " ; " New Bats and Rodents 

 in the British Museum Collection " ; "A new Fruit-Bat from 

 Sierra Leone " ; "A new Pogonomys presented to the British 

 Museum by Sir William Ingram " ; "A new Species of the 

 Mascarene Genus Eliurus " ; " On the large Flying-Squirrels 

 referred to Petaurista nitida, Desm." ; "The Duke of Bedford's 

 Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia. — X. List of Mammals 

 from the Provinces of Chih-li and Shan-si, North China" ; " The 

 Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia. — 

 VI. List of Mammals from the Shantung Peninsula, Noith 

 China " ; " The Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration in 

 Eastern Asia. — VII. List of Mammals from the Tsu-shima 

 Islands"; The Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration in 



