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by Sir Alexander Bannerman, late governor of Newfoundland ; 

 the collection of Crinoids, bought of the Rev. Mr. Barris, includ- 

 ing about fifteen hundred well preserved heads of these interest- 

 ing fossils ; the skeletons of two celebrated race horses, well 

 preserved, one of which, Prince, presented by Mr. Beckwith, 

 was for years the master of our turf. The giraffe, obtained 

 from the Jardin des Plantes : the collections of reptiles and 

 fishes from Siam, presented by Mr. Blake ; the collections sent 

 by Mr. Layard, from the Cape of Good Hope, and those made 

 by Mr. Garrett, at the Society Islands, are among the most 

 impressive additions we have ever received. 



I should be wanting in courtesy and gratitude, and should 

 do injustice also to my own feeling, did I not make special men- 

 tion of the continued interest shown in our Museum by the 

 Emperor of Brazil. His majesty has caused to be made, in our 

 behalf, a special collection of the fresh water fishes of the 

 vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, containing over a thousand speci- 

 mens of different species, most interesting in themselves, and 

 especially so to me, as part of them were among the first 

 objects which attracted my attention in the earliest years of my 

 scientific pursuits. 



The pecuniary resources available during the past year for 

 the management of the affairs of the Museum have amounted 

 to $15,460, appropriated by the Board of Trustees and by the 

 Corporation for the general purposes of the Museum, in accord- 

 ance with the intentions of the donors of the funds, from which 

 this sum is the interest. Besides this, I have received, from 

 private sources, the sum of $6,250, in addition to the $2,500 

 paid by the Corporation for the salary of the Professor of Zool- 

 ogy. The combined resources which have benefited the Museum 

 during the past year amounting thus to not less than $24,210, 

 all of which have been accounted and vouched for in the faculty 

 of the Museum. 



Report on the Mammalia, by J. A. Allen. 



During the early part of the present year, the collection of 

 Mammals was revised by Mr. A. E. Yerrill and Mr. W. H. 

 Niles, and so rearranged as to be best available for examination. 



