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River Region" and "Heredity and Sex" are among the "best 

 sellers," for the first two of these are small and not illustrated 

 and the last deals with a rather abstruse subject: evidently 

 there is a desire for real information on the part of some of our 

 visitors. 



An addition to the publications that should be in demand is 

 the series of one hundred poster stamps prepared under the 

 direction of Mr. Pindar, who has made time to do this work 

 in addition to his ever-growing other official duties, and has 

 also prepared a Guide to the Nature Treasures of New York 

 City, advance copies of which were distributed during the meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in December. 



Work on various groups and important single specimens has 

 been prosecuted vigorously during the year, though in a num- 

 ber of instances the results will not be visible 

 New Exhibits undl another season . Mountain Sheep, Jack 



Rabbits, Pack Rats and Brown Bats have been added to the 

 North American Series and the Mountain Goat Group has been 

 completed. A fine group of Colobus Monkeys, and three 

 figures, a Norwegian, a Chinese and an African, mark, it is 

 hoped, the beginning of the complete "making over" of the 

 Primates Hall. The figures, by the Washington sculptor Mr. 

 U. S. J. Dunbar, are typical examples of the three better 

 defined races of mankind and carry the exhibits of Primates 

 beyond the point where they usually stop ; for, while text-books 

 agree that man is a member of the order, yet his display from a 

 zoological standpoint is left usually to the anthropologist, who 

 quite as usually omits to treat him zoologically. 



Weyer's Cave is practically finished and was placed on ex- 

 hibition during the meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science ; "Virginia Deer in Summer" and 

 "Red African Monkeys" are well advanced, and so is the Flor- 

 ida Reptile Group, the largest "habitat group" that the Museum 

 has ever undertaken; the Apache Group is three-fifths done, 

 and studies have been made for the Navajo and New Zealand 

 Anthropological Groups, which it is hoped may be commenced 

 during the coming year. 



