210 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



James T„ Walker, esq. In exchange for specimens from the Museum, 

 Prof. Dr. Alf. Nehring, of Berlin, sent the skeleton of a dachshund and 

 the skull of a Syrian street dog. Dr. E. Bessels presented the skeleton 

 of a greyhound. 



Lithographic pictures of General Grant's Arabian horses were pre- 

 sented by Mr. Eandolph Huntington, of Rochester, K. Y. 



Among the important specimens of aquatic mammals, in addition to 

 those referred in the report on the Department of Mammals (pp. 147- 

 148) may be mentioned the skull of Steller's sea-lion, Eumetopias Stel- 

 leri, a skull of the Pacific walrus, and a skeleton of the sea-otter pre- 

 sented by Dr. L. Stejneger. The curator procured at Hatteras, through 

 the kindness of Col. John Wainwright, of the Wilmington Oil and 

 Leather Company, a number of foetal skulls of the bottlenosed dolphin, 

 Tursiops tursio. 



Among terrestrial mammals may be mentioned the skeleton of an 

 European badger, Meles taxus, prepared from a fresh specimen received 

 without indication of the donor. A skeleton of Cynopithecus niger was 

 prepared from a fresh specimen received from Dr. W. A. Couklin. 



A valuable series of skeletons of birds of the North Pacific was 

 collected by Charles JI. Townsend, esq. A collection of skeletons of 

 Florida species was presented by Dr. B. H. Warner. 



Tne most important fishes received during the year were Tetrapturus 

 albidus, Coryphama punctulata, and Caranx pisquetas, the first from 

 Joseph Wharton, esq., and the remaining two from the U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



No new lines of work have entered upon since the close of the last 

 fiscal year, but we have occupied ourselves with the expansion and per- 

 fection of the exhibition series and the better arrangement of the du- 

 plicate material. Each of the different series mentioned in the previous 

 report — the morphological series, the systematic series, and the series 

 illustrating the races of domestic animals — has received some impor- 

 tant addition from the hands of the preparators. The exhibition cases, 

 though not entirely full, are all occupied by a greater or less number of 

 specimens of representative species. The number of exhibition and sto- 

 rage cases in the hall June 30, 1SS6, was as follows : 



Unit pyramidal table-cases 8 



Unit square table-cases 10 



One-half unit pyramidal table-cases 6 



One-half unit square table-cases 2 



Door-screen cases 1 



Unit storage cases 18 



One-half unit storage cases 8 



Movable cases 7 



Stationary wall-case (exhibition) 1 



Stationary wall-case (storage) 1 



Total exhibition cases 28 



Total storage cases 26 



