DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



Department of Zoology. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia. — In the exhibition series the work of mount- 

 ing, labelling, and arranging the specimens lias been 

 continued. 



The specimens of Proboscidea and Sirenia have been 

 transferred to the Geological Galleries in order to relieve 

 the congestion in the Mammalian Gallery, and also to bring- 

 together the recent and extinct members of the groups men- 

 tioned. Further space has been gained in the Gallery by the 

 removal of the Giraffes and Harnessed Antelopes to the East 

 and West Corridors respectively. This space has been utilised 

 by giving more room to several of the groups of animals 

 remaining in the Gallery, notably the Gazelles, Pigs, and 

 Wild Asses, for which purpose the central partitions have 

 been removed from many of the cases. 



Further improvements in the same direction are now 

 being made by the removal of the Okapi to the East 

 Corridor. 



The positions of the Rhinoceroses have been advan- 

 tageously changed, and a less expensive method of protecting 

 these animals from injury has been devised. 



Many old and badly-mounted specimens have been re- 

 mounted or replaced by new ones. The Roan Antelope 

 case in the West Corridor has been fitted with artificial 

 ground-work, and two cases have been transferred from 

 the Fish reserve to this corridor, in v/hich the Harnessed 

 Antelopes are exhibited. 



In the East Corridor the two Giraffes presented by the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild and Major Powell-Cotton respec- 

 tively have been put in position and fitted with artificial 

 ground-work. A wall-case displaying sections of a Giraffe 

 skull has been fixed near by. 



In the Upper Mammalian Gallery no special changes have 

 been made. One case has been devoted to the exhibition of 

 a series of coloured photographs of the different races of 

 mankind. Several additions have been made to the series 

 of enlarged photographs of human subjects. The group of 

 Proboscis Monkeys has been remounted, and the nose of the 

 male remodelled in accordance with recent photographs. 



In the North Hall a large number of new specimens of 

 domesticated Mammals have been added, and a series of 

 specimens illustrating the callosities of the limbs of the 

 Equidse and the glands on those of other Mammals; and 

 another series showing the differences between the limbs of 

 thoroughbred and caTt horses has been placed on exhibition. 

 The cases containing the series illustrating the evolution of 



