114 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Liverpool, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Durham 

 College of Science, the University of Montreal, and the 

 Toronto Museum. 



Exchanges have been effected with the following institutions 

 and individuals : — University Museum, Cambridge, the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, the South African Museum, Cape 

 Town, the West Australian Museum, Perth, W.A., the 

 Princeton University, New Jersey, the Branicki Museum, 

 Warsaw, and the Museums of Berlin, Hamburg, Gottingen, 

 and Buda-Pesth, the Owen's School Museum, Islington, Dr. 

 Walther Horn, Captain Kerremans, Mons. R. Oberthiir, 

 Mons. A. Faudel, Prof. A. S. Packard, the Hon. W. Rothschild, 

 Dr. E. A. Heath, and Messrs. Heatley Noble, J. H. Fleming, 

 E. Saunders, and 0. E. Janson. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Thirty-six separate works in 65 volumes and 1,134 new 

 numbers of periodicals, and parts of works in progress, 

 obtained by presentation, purchase, and exchange have been 

 added to the Departmental Library, and 59 volumes have 

 been bound. The Library now contains 10,298 separate 

 works, represented by 17,167 volumes. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues and volumes published by 

 the Trustees which have been already enumerated, the 

 following reports and descriptive papers have been prepared 

 in connection with various parts of the collection, (chiefly 

 recent acquisitions), and published in scientific journals : — 



Mammalia. — " On the Mammals obtained in South-West 

 Arabia by Messrs. Percival and Dodson " ; *' Remarks upon 

 the skin of a new species of Kangaroo (Macropus bedfordi) " ; 

 " Remarks upon a new subspecies of Kangaroo from Western 

 Australia {Macropus robustus cervinus) " ; " List of Mammals 

 obtained by Mr. H. J. Mackinder during his expedition to 

 Mount Kenya"; "The Geographical Races of the Tayra 

 (Galera barbara), with notes on abnormally coloured 

 individuals " ; "A new Bat from the Key Islands " ; "A new 

 Fruit-Bat from New Guinea " ; " Descriptions of new 

 Meotropical Mammals " (5 papers) ; " Descriptions of two 

 new Sciuropteri from Borneo " ; " A new Skunk from 

 Peru " ; " On Giant Squirrels from the Amazonian Region " ; 

 " On the East African Reedbuck currently known as 

 Cervicapra bohoc " ; " A new Dassie from North Nyasa- 

 land " ; " The Red Flying Squirrel of the Natuna Islands " ; 

 " List of the Mammals obtained by Dr. G. F. Grillo in the 

 Province of Parana " ; by Oldfield Thomas. 



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