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Department of Zoology. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia. 



The number of new specimens added to the exhibition 

 series during the year is rather above the average ; the most 

 important of these are noted below. 



Several cases in the Lower Mammal Gallery have been 

 opened out by the removal of the central partitions, and their 

 contents rearranged in a more effective manner. The Sea- 

 Elephant case has been rearranged and floored with shingle. 



A number of new descriptive labels have been printed for 

 the Mammal Galleries and North Hall, while such of the old 

 ones as required modification have been altered and reprinted. 



The additions by presentation to the exhibition series 

 during the year include the following specimens : — A Maroon 

 Langur Monkey, and a Javan Crab-eating Macaque, presented 

 by W. E. Balston, Esq. An African Green Monkey, from the 

 Zoological Society's Menagerie. A male Crab-eating Macaque 

 from Mauritius, presented by the Commissioners of the Franco- 

 British Exhibition. Head of Lake Chad Buffalo, from French 

 Congo and one of female of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Eland, pre- 

 sented by the Executors of the late Prince Paul Demidoff. 

 Skull of European Bison, the gift of the Duke of Bedford, 

 K.G. Antlers of a Canadian Moose, bequeathed by the late 

 Eev. E. J. May. A Pampas Deer from Argentina, presented 

 by Ernest Gibson, Esq. Head of Red-fronted Gazelle from 

 the Upper Nile, given by Norman Smith, Esq. A Sclater's 

 Muntjac from China, presented by C. H. Teesdale, Esq. ; and a 

 Reeves's Muntjac, presented by the Duke of Bedford, Head of 

 Lichtenstein's Hartebeest, the gift of H. Pankhurst, Esq. 

 Head of Defassa Watei-buck, presented by K. C. B. Struve, 

 Esq. Horns of male, female, and young of the Black Rhino- 

 ceros from East Africa, presented by Dr. W. J. Ansorge. A 

 North African Striped Hj^-gena, presented by E. Richardson 

 Cox, Esq. A Javan Palm Civet and a Rasse, presented by W. 

 E. Balston, Esq. An Indian Black-naped Hare, from Mauritius, 

 presented by the Commissioners of the Franco-British 

 Exhibition. 



Among purchases, special attention may be directed to a 

 male, female, and young of the Southern Elephant-seal, or 

 Sea-Elephant, from the Crozet Islands. Also to a female speci- 

 men of a new race of Hangul Deer from Sze-chuen, and to a 

 skull of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Eland. Three coloured busts of 

 Natives of Siberia and Saghalin Island have also been added 

 by purchase to the anthropological series 



Large maps have been placed in the cases to illustrate the 

 Geographical Distiibution of Elephant-seals and of Argali 



