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1 V. — Duplicutex. 



Allt'^^'tTt-'f^ ^h^r''' '^'*'!' 893jluplicate birds have been sent to Professor 

 Aga.. z ; 990 birds and 30 Crustacea have been transferred to the Edinbur..h Museum • 

 a small number o duplicates have also been used in exchange with foreign Museums and 

 private individuals for specimens required for the collection. 



V. — Ucpartmejilal Libraii/. 



The Departmental Library has acquired, by purchase, presentation or cxchano-e 299 

 works, represented by 355 volumes, besides continuations of periodicals and works in 

 progress. The " Tweeddale " Library, referred to in last year's report, consistino- of 698 

 works, and 2,560 volumes, and about 200 tracts, has been catalogued, and arrann-eil on 

 shelves in the Bird-Room. The total number of works now in the Librarv is^J 489 

 represented by 15,243 volumes. " ' ' 



All the additions during the year have been entered in the Purchase Book, catalotrued 

 press-marked, stamped, and placed ; 1 18 volumes have been bound. ' 



A revision of the slips of titles has been commenced, with a view of preparino- a subject- 

 catalogue. ° 



VI. — Catahiguf's. 

 The following Catalogues have been issued during the year 1888 : — 



1. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata (8vo., 401 pp., 28 plates, and wood- 

 cuts), by O. Thomas. 



2. Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XIL, Passeres Fringilliformes, Ft. 3. (8vo., 887 pp., 16 

 plates, and numerous woodcuts), by R. B. Sharpe. 



3. Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XIV., Passeres Oligomyodae {Svo., 514 pp., 26 plates, and 

 numerous woodcuts), by P. L. ISclater. 



In addition to the al)0ve works, the manuscripts of a Guide to the Bird Gallery, of five 

 more volumes of the " Catalogue of Birds," and one part of the " Illustrations of Types 

 of Lepidoptera Heterocera " are in coi'Tse of preparation, and the " Catalogue of Chelonia 

 and Crocodilia " was in type at the close of the year. 



The following are the most important reports or descriptive papers which have been 

 prepared by the departmental staff in connection with various parts of the collection, 

 especially recent acquisitions, and have been published in scientific journals : — Reports 

 on the collections made at Christmas Island by Mr. J. J. Lister ; on the collections made 

 at Dominica by Mr. Ramage ; on the collections made at Fernando Noronha by Mr. 

 H. N. Ridley and Mr. Ramage ; on the collection made by Emin Pasha in Equatorial 

 Africa, by the Staff' of the Department. Further; — "List of xMammals obtained by 

 Mr. G. F. Gaumer on Cozumel and Ptuatan Islands " ; " On a new and interesting 

 annectant genus of Murida, " ; " Description of a new genus and species of Rat from New 

 Guinea"; " On a new species oi LoncheriS from British Guiana" ; " Diagnoses of four 

 new Mammals from the Malayan Region"; " Diagnoses of six new Mammals from the 

 Solomon Islands " ; " On Eupetaurus, a new form of Flying Squirrel from Kashmir," by 

 O. Thomas. "Notes on specimens in the Hume collection of Birds, No. 6''; 

 " Descriptions of some new species of Birds from the Island of Guadalcanar in the 

 Solomon Archipelago, discovered by Mr. C. M. Woodford"; "List of a collection of 

 Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in the main range of Mountains of the Malay Peninsula, 

 Perak " ; "Note on the tjcnus /?ec/es," by R. B. Sharpe. "Second list of the Birds 

 collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago"; " Notes on Pigeons 

 collected by Mr. A. H. Everett on the Northwest Coast of Borneo," by W. R. O. Grant. 

 " Contribution to the knowledge of the Snakes of Tropical Africa " ; " On a collection 

 of Reptiles from China," by Dr. A. Giinther. " Description of a new genus of Lizards, 

 of die family Ttiida:"; "Third contribution tD the Herpetology of the Solomon 

 Islands " ; " Note on the classification of the Ranida " ; " On the scaling of the reproduced 

 tail of Lizards"; " Descriptions of two new Chameleons from Nossi Be"; "Descriptions 

 of new Reptiles and Batrachians from Madagascar " ; " On the affinity of the North 

 American Lizard-fauna " ; " Descriptions of new Brazilian Batrachians " ; " Descriptions 

 of new Reptiles and Batrachians from New Guinea " ; " On the characters of the 

 Ptlor/iedusidcB and Clidydidce" ; " On Reptiles and Batrachians from Iguarassu"; "List 

 of Batrachians from tlie Province Santa Catharina "; "On the nursing habits oi' Uendru- 

 bates " ; " On new or little known South African Reptiles"; "Second list of Reptiles 

 from Cyprus " ; " On the Chelydoid Chelonians of New Guinea " ; " Sur la Synonymie 

 et la Distribution geographique des deux Sonneurs Europeens "; " An account of the 

 Fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, East Coast of Arabia," 

 by G. A. Boulenger. " Contribution to our knowledge of Fishes of the Yangtsze- 

 Kiang ";" Report on the Fishes obtained by Mr. J. Murray in Deep Water, on the 

 North-west Coast of Scotland, between April 1887 and March 1888," by Dr. A. 



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