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finished, the female and young well advanced, and the huge 

 male about one half done. The record White Rhinoceros is 

 completed, as is the calf, and the female is well along in prepa- 

 ration. 



The most important single piece completed during the year 

 was the reproduction of the Manta, or Giant Ray, secured by 

 Mr. Russell J. Coles, which was hung over the exhibits of fishes 

 in November, and for the first time affords the public an idea 

 of this most interesting creature. 



Important additions have been made to the historical side of 

 the collections through the gift of a large painting by Titian R. 

 Peale of a herd of bison near the headwaters of the Platte, 

 from studies made during the expedition under Long in 1820, 

 and a portrait of Robert Havell, engraver of the first edition of 

 Audubon's Birds of America, together with his last painting. 

 For the first the Museum is indebted to Mr. John M. Hoffmire 

 and Mr. Charles W. MacMullen, nephews of Mrs. Titian R. 

 Peale, and for the latter to Mr. Robert Havell Lockwood, 

 grandson of the engraver. The Museum had already acquired 

 from Mr. Hoffmire a fine portrait of Peale together with the 

 drawings and manuscript for his projected work on American 

 Butterflies. 



The printing office has turned out its customary amount of 



work, including this year 1,000 copies of each of the three 



leaflets, "Our Common Butterflies," "How to Col- 



LabeHng and lect Insects >" and "Syllabus Guide to the Public 

 Health Hall." There were also no less than 28,000 

 small booklets, sixteen pages each, issued in connection with 

 the various lecture courses. Aside from these the printing 

 may be roughly summarized as follows : 



Summary of Printing — 1917 impressions 



Letter-heads 84,000 



Field and Reserve Collection Labels 59, 105 



Report, Requisition and Other Forms 151,245 



Catalogue Cards, Tickets to Lectures, etc 322,114 



Programs, Circulars, Invitations 141,735 



Individual Labels 389 



Descriptive Labels .... 833 



1,222 (average of 5 each) 6,110 

 764,309 



