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Shute, J. G., Woburn, Mass. 7 Mammals, 3 species, in alcohol, 

 including embryos of Opossum, from Newbern, N. C. 



Slack, J. H., M. D. 1 Cast of Fossil Skull, from New Jersey. 



Tenney, S., Cambridge, Mass. 1 Condylura, in alcohol, from 

 Cambridge. 



Secured with the Gray Fund. 



Cooke, C, Student in the Zoological Department of the Scientific 

 School. 5 Mammals, 4 species, in alcohol ; 8 Mammals, 5 species, in 

 alcohol, including two Antilocarpa Ruetea ; 5 Mammals, 4 species, in 

 alcohol; 1 sk-ull of Camel; 4 skins, 3 species; 2 skeletons, 2 species, 

 from Zanzibar. 



Griffin, W. H., Somerville, Mass. 3 Mammals, 2 species, in alco- 

 hol, from Somerville. 



Gulich, J. T., Kanagawa, Japan. 4 Mammals, 3 species, in alcohol, 

 from Japan. 



Rich, J. G., Upton, Me. 4 Mammals, 4 species, fresh, including 

 Otter and Sable ; 15 Mammals, 5 species, in alcohol ; 1 Otter and 1 

 Beaver, fresh ; 1 Wolf, fresh ; 1 Beaver, 1 Fisher, and 1 Sable, fresh ; 

 6 carcasses for skeletons, 4 species ; 4 Caribou, fresh ; 2 young Bears, 

 fresh ; 7 Mammals, 5 species, including embryos of Caribou, Moose and 

 Deer, in alcohol ; 1 Canada Lynx, with 3 embryos, fresh ; 6 skins of 

 Muskrats (Fiber), prepared for exchange, all from northern Maine. 



Sears, Mr., Boston, Mass. 1 Chimpanzee, fresh, from Africa. 



Report on the Collection of Birds , by A. E. Verrill. 



The work of numbering, cataloguing, and arranging the 

 specimens in this department, commenced before the last 

 report, has been continued by Mr. J. A. Allen and myself, until 

 it is now nearly completed, so far as the alcoholic collections 

 received during previous years are concerned. Much labor of 

 this kind remains still to be done, however, before the collec- 

 tion can be put into as perfect order as is desirable, even for 

 scientific use. In addition to the regular serial catalogue, Mr. 

 Allen has commenced to make catalogues of the specimens 

 belonging to each family, in order to remedy in some measure 

 the inconvenience of the present method of packing them away 

 in large kegs and barrels, made necessary by the crowded con- 

 dition of the Museum. Mr. Allen has also made a large num- 



