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Barney, will not soon be surpassed. The F. H. 
Barber South African Collection, presented by 
Messrs. Frederick A. Schermerhorn, Lispenard 
Stewart, Frederick G. Bourne, Charles F. 
Dieterich and William D. Sloane,, contains not 
only a.great number of species, rare and com- 
mon, but also many records. Such collections 
as this are brought together only through years 
of patient and industrious effort, and many sac- 
rifices; and we say again that when Mr. Grant 
secured the subscriptions that purchased this 
important series, he scored another grand coup 
for New York. The most important specimens 
of the Barber Collection are the following 
records: Cape Buttalo, Greater Kudu, Water- 
buck, Lechee Antelope, White-Tailed Gnu, 
Wart-Hog, Springbuck and Steinbuck. 
The gift of Edward J. House is at once ren- 
dered noteworthy by its magnificent Reticulated 
Girafte with a full-length neck. Mr. 
Perey Madeira’s gift is made conspicuous by its 
Hippopotamus head. 
head, 
Mr. George L. Harri- 
son’s beautiful group of antelopes and gazelles 
contains the rare Addra Gazelle, White-Eared 
Kob and the Thomas Uganda Kob. 
The Donaldson-Smith Collection, presented 
by Mr. George J. Gould, through Mr. Grant, 
contains four large heads of special value and 
interest, of Abyssinian Buffalo, Gaur, Indian 
Buffalo and Reticulated Giraffe. The collec- 
tion given by Newland, Tarlton and Company, 
of Nairobi, is particularly strong in specimens 
of Jackson Hartebeest, of which there is a large 
Mr. J. W. Norton’s Eland, Waterbucks 
and Pallahs make a very satisfactory feature of 
the African continental exhibit. 
With the matchless Reed-MecMillin Collection 
from Alaska, New York is now fairly familiar. 
It was the first—and the largest—individual 
eift, and fortunately was in such shape that it 
was immediately presentable to the public, pic- 
torially. It is very rich in Giant Moose from 
the Kenai Peninsula, Grant Caribou and 
Alaskan Brown Bear. At first the two largest 
and finest bear skins were hung upon the wall; 
but a little later it was found that the great 
space they occupied was so imperatively de- 
manded by the heads and horns of the continent 
of North America that it was necessary to take 
them down. 
series. 
In planning the arrangement as a whole, it 
was decided that so long as the collection re- 
mains in the Administration Building, several of 
the individual-gift collections will be kept to- 
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gether, even in the zoological series. This idea 
has been carried into effect, and because of this, 
the systematic arrangement of about one-third 
of the zoological series is imperfect. The 
groups representing the Deer Family, the Wild 
Cattle, the Sheep, and the Goats, Ibexes and 
Rupicaprines, are fairly satisfactory, and they 
at least serve to indicate what will be possible 
when we secure a building of ample size, spe- 
cially designed to accommodate the National 
Collection for the next hundred years. 
In the Geographic Series, the Asiatic exhibit 
is weak, chiefly because of the fact that what 
would have been its strength has been bestowed 
in the Zoological Series. From Asia we need 
all the Markhors, nearly all the Sheep, and 
many Deer. And this reminds us of a very 
pleasing episode. 
At the very moment when the Contributors’ 
und became exhausted by important purchases, 
Mr. H. Casimir de Rham subscribed to that 
fund $2,500! Forthwith, portions of it were 
used in acquiring the monster eighty-nine inch 
horns of an Indian Buffalo—now in the Asiatic 
section—the head of an Astor Markhor for the 
Zoological Series and two fine sheep heads— 
Ovis karelini and O. nigrimontana—that were 
collected only last year in Eastern Turkestan 
by Mr. Douglas Carruthers. The last-named 
species had not before existed in the collection; 
and we doubt whether there are more than four 
or five specimens in all the museums of the 
world. In Mr. Rowland Ward’s fifth edition of 
his Records of Big Game, the species is not 
mentioned. It is like a small edition of O. 
karelini, which in turn is like a small edition of 
Ovis poli. 
The Contributors’ Fund, to the making of 
which thirty-six sportsmen subscribed, has been 
of very great service in the founding of this 
collection. By means of it thirty-four speci- 
mens representing thirty-one species of particu- 
lar scientific value and rarity, have been pur- 
chased; and through it a number of gaps have 
been filled. 
In the Zoological Series, we can contemplate 
our Deer Family with considerable satisfaction; 
for it is much more than a beginning; and the 
same is true of the Wild Cattle, Sheep, and the 
Goats and their allies. All these are so far 
along that the zoological gaps in them are not 
very conspicuous. As Captain John S. Barnes 
trenchantly remarked after viewing the Zoolog- 
ical Series, “It will now take a smart man to 
tell what this collection lacks!” 
