DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



Dr. M. A. Regiinbart, Dr. F. Ohaus, Dr. E. A. Heath, M. 

 Rene Oberthiir, Mr. G. Lewis, Mr. O. E. Janson, and Miss 

 Julia Wrie-lit. 



111.— Departmental Library. 



One hundred and sixteen separate works in 158 volumes, 

 and 1,18.3 new numbers of periodicals and parts of works in 

 progress, obtained by purchase, presentation, and exchange, 

 have been added to the Zoological Library. Two hundred 

 and fifty-two books have been bound. The library now 

 consists of 10,723 separate works in 16,083 volumes. The cata- 

 loguing, press-marking, stamping, and incorporation of all 

 additions have been performed as usual. 1,409 visits have 

 been paid to the library by students, artists, and other 

 persons requiring information. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues and other volumes published 

 by the Trustees, which have already been 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 Mammals from Northern Angola, 

 collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge " ; " New Sciurus, Rhipi- 

 domys, Sylvilagus, and Caluromys from Venezuela " ; " New 

 Bats and Rodents from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, 

 and Papuasia " ; " New Bats from British East Africa, col- 

 lected by Mrs. Hinde, and from the Cameroons by Mr. G. 

 L. Bates " ; "Two new Mammals from South America " ; "A 

 new Bat from the United States, representing the European 

 Myotis {Leuconoe) daubentoni " ; " On Shrews from British 

 East Africa " ; " On a new species of Fruit-bat from Fernando 

 Po " ; " On the skull of a Buffalo from Uganda" ; "On a new 

 sub-species of Hartebeest " ; " On the Mammals of the Percy 

 Sladen Expedition " ; " On the Mammals of the Uganda 

 Boundary Commission " ; " On a collection of Mammals 

 obtained in Somaliland by Major H. N. Dunn, R.A.M.C. " ; 

 " On a collection of Mammals from British Namaqualancl 

 presented to the National Museum by Mr. C. D. Rudd " (in 

 conjunction with Harold Schwann) ; " On new Mammals from 

 British New Guinea " ; " On a nev: form of African Antelof e," 

 by Oldfield Thomas. 



" Notes on an undescribed Weasel from the Atlas Moun- 

 tains and on the occurrence of a Weasel in the Azores " ; 

 "The Stoats {Putorius ermineus, Linn.) of Jura and Islay," 

 by G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 



