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REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



The study series has received constant additions from the Prepara- 

 tory laboratory. The statistics of this work will be found in the Prep- 

 aratory report (p. .) 



The card catalogue of the mammals is practically completed, and only 

 a small number of unidentified specimens still remain to be added. Cat- 

 alogues of the birds, reptiles, batrachians, and fishes have not been un- 

 dertaken. They can hardly be made with the present limited clerical 

 aid. 



Very few specimens have been distributed during the year. Skulls 

 of the Pacific walrus and mountain sheep were sent to George A. Board- 

 man, esq., as a partial return for numerous specimens presented to the 

 Museum. Dr. L. Stejneger received his quota (as collector) of the 

 specimens obtained by him in the Bering Islands and Kamtschatka. 

 Skeletons of a monkey, Cercopithecus rufoviruHs, and a python, Python 

 molunis, were forwarded to Dr. A. K. G. Selwyn, directer of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada, in return for invertebrate fossils presented to 

 the Museum. 



The only specimens loaned for study were two skulls of Putorius 

 nigr'qjes, which went to Dr. C. H. Merriman, and a skull of Spermophilus 

 tereticaudus, which was examined by Dr. J. A. Allen. 



The entire collection being accessible at the close of the past year, 

 it was deemed best to replace the estimates of the number of specimens 

 in the collection by statistics based on actual count. The figures may be 

 relied upon as representing the actual number of osteologicai species in 

 the department June 30, 1886. 



Skeletons. Skulls. 



Mammals 814 



Birds 447 



Reptiles and batrachians 201 



Fishes 525 



Tota- 1,987 



Mammals 4, 594 



Birds 1,760 



Reptiles and batraehians 74 



Fishes 153 



Total 6,581 



Birds' sterna 1,519 



Antlers _ 



Casts of brains : 



89 



The exhibition series comprised the following number of specimens 

 of each class : 



Skeletons. 



Mammals : 



Birds 



Reptiles and batrachians 

 Fishes 



Total 



165 

 24 

 25 

 26 



240 



Skulls. 



Mammals 



Birds 



Reptiles and batrachians . 

 Fishes 



71 



16 



2 

 



Total 



89 



Pieces in morphological series 



Teeth (mastodon, etc. ) 



Antlers (pairs) 1 



Photographs, engravings, etc. 



55 



10 



9 



11 



