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REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



The larger collections received during the year include: — 

 107 specimens from Alaska and eastern Siberia, the gift of Col. 

 J. E. Thayer and Prof. Theodore Lyman, collected by Messrs. 

 Joseph Dixon and W. S. Brooks; 130 specimens from Guadeloupe, 

 collected by Mr. G. K. Noble, the gift of several friends of the 

 Museum, and some desirable specimens from Texas and Trinidad, 

 gifts of Col. J. E. Thayer and Mr. J. B. Rorer. The mam- 

 mals collected during Dr. J. C. Phillips's Palestine expedition (22 

 March-12 May, 1914), the gift of Dr. Phillips, acknowledged in 

 the Report M. C. Z. for 1913-1914, p. 4-5, number 144 specimens. 



Single specimens or small series of specimens have been received 

 from Mrs. F. A. Pierce, Messrs. G. M. Allen, H. R. Amory, 

 Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, J. H. Blake, William Brewster, 

 W. B. Cabot, W. E. Castle, M. L. Church, Joseph Flaherty, 

 R. T. Jackson, A. V. Kidder, G. L. Kirk, J. D. MacF. MacDougall, 

 T. K. Morton, G. H. Parker, J. L. Peters, J. F. Porter, C. T. 

 Ramsden, Harold St. John, and J. D. Sornborger, the city of 

 Boston (Department of Parks) the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, Musee l'Herminier, Guadeloupe, W. I., and the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. 



Exchanges have been made with the Naturhistorisches Museum, 

 Basel; American Museum of Natural History, New York; and 

 the University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor. 



