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Battv in the state of Chiriqui, Colombia, numbering 254 speci- 

 mens; a collection of 78 small mammals from Costa Rica, 

 made for the Museum by Mr. J. H. Carriker, Jr. ; a collection 

 of bats numbering 95 specimens, collected in the Bahamas 

 and Cuba by Mr. S. H. Hamilton, and an important collection 

 of arctic mammals made for the Museum by Capt. George 

 Comer, in the region about Repulse Bay, Hudson Bay, in- 

 cluding skeletons and skulls of musk-oxen, a large series of 

 barren ground caribou, skins and skeletons of the bearded 

 seal, etc. 



The specimens obtained by the Andrew J. Stone Expedi- 

 tion form a most important addition to the North American 

 collection of mammals. It comprises some fifty large, and 

 about one thousand small mammals, among which are many 

 species new to the Museum. 



The gift from the Peary Arctic Club of about one hundred 

 mammals collected by Commander Peary on his last arctic 

 expedition, is especially noteworthy. It includes skins of 

 caribou, musk-oxen, walrus, seals and polar bears, and many 

 skulls of walrus and seals. The Museum is now doubtless by 

 far the richest in the world in mammals from arctic America. 



Donations of specimens in the flesh have been received 

 from the New York Zoological Society and the Central Park 

 Menagerie, including many important types. Special men- 

 tion should be made of the gift from Messrs. Charles D. 

 Cleveland and Marshall Maclean, of New York, of a fine series 

 of Newfoundland caribou. 



Mrs. Hannah H. Corbin has presented two mounted speci- 

 mens of wild boar, and Mr. L. S. Thompson has given a re- 

 markably large mounted head of the Alaska moose, and two 

 mounted Rocky Mountain sheep. We are indebted to Mr. 

 William F. Whitehouse, Jr., for a mounted specimen of the 

 rare Abyssinian duyker antelope, a gift, and mounted heads 

 of the African elephant and two-horned rhinoceros, placed in 

 the Museum on loan. 



The recent accessions of mammals and birds have been cata- 

 logued to date, and labeled with field data, but not all have 

 been identified. 



