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Accessions. — The list of accessions published in the later 

 pages of this report is an evidence of the growing interest felt in 

 this Museum by our citizens. The donations were numerous, 

 and represent many valuable additions to the collections and 

 Library. 



I desire to record our appreciation of the gift made by Mr. 

 Wm. F. Havemeyer of a painting and four studies of some of 

 the important works of Wm. Bradford. These have been hung 

 in the Library, with the large painting of the " English Expedition 

 in Search of Sir John Franklin," given to the Museum in 1892 

 by Mr. Havemeyer and a number of his friends. The celebrated 

 work owned by C. P. Huntington, and painted by the same artist, 

 entitled " The Polaris in the Ice at Thank God Harbor," also 

 hangs in the Library. 



Mr. James A. Bailey has given an Indian Elephant, two Camels 

 and two Kangaroos, to the Department of Vertebrate Zoology. 

 Our thanks are also due to the Commissioners of Parks for a 

 number of animals which died at the Menagerie and at the 

 Aquarium. 



Mr. James M. Constable and your President had the pleasure 

 of securing for the same department three excellent specimens of 

 Mountain Sheep, the types of a new species described in the 

 present volume of the Bulletin. 



Gifts of rare and very desirable collections of mammals, birds 

 and reptiles were received from Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. 

 Army; Mr. Morris M. Green, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Mr. W. R. 

 Horn, of Melbourne, Australia. Miss Annie Peniston, of Hamil- 

 ton Parish, Bermuda, has presented another collection of shells 

 from Bermuda, an addition to her previous donation. 



The Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company has added 

 to its previous gifts a number of valuable specimens, and Mr. I. F. 

 Elder, of Keokuk, Iowa, presented forty-two geodes from North- 

 western Missouri. 



A collection of fossils and shells were donated by Mr. Wm. E. 

 Crane, of Tarrytown, N. Y., many of the shells being previously 

 unrepresented in the collection. 



The Department of Anthropology has been greatly benefited 

 through the liberality of the Duke of Loubat. The means to 



