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mention should be made of a remarkably fine skull with horns 

 attached of a male of the typical southern race of the White 

 Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros simus). This race is now practically 

 extinct, and though Dr. Phillips's specimen lacks data, it, without 

 doubt, came from Zululand. The front horn is massive and 

 measures thirty-one and one half inches ; it is typical in form with 

 recurving tip, while the hind horn is quite small, only ten inches 

 in length, and has a short compressed smooth tip. This skull is 

 shown on the accompanying plate and has been placed on exhibi- 

 tion on the wall of the Divinity Avenue Entrance Hall. 



Dr. Phillips, in addition to his valuable gifts to the collections, 

 has most generously supplied the means by which an additional 

 Preparator has been added to the Museum staff. Since August 

 1910, Mr. Walter R. Zappey has been engaged almost continu- 

 ously upon the research collections of birds and mammals where 

 his skill and industry are rapidly improving specimens received 

 in the rough. He has also, in addition to several small mammals 

 prepared for the exhibition rooms, mounted for the North Ameri- 

 can room a pair of Nelson's Sheep, Ovis nelsoni, collected by Dr. 

 Phillips in Lower California. 



Dr. Thomas Barbour has worked on the collections of amphi- 

 bians and reptiles throughout the year; his generous expenditure 

 of time and money has greatly enhanced the value and extent of 

 these collections. He has also presented many valuable specimens 

 to the collections of other departments of the Museum especially 

 the ornithological and entomological departments. 



For a handsome male Javan Peacock, Pavo muticus, acknowledg- 

 ment is due Mr. William Barbour. This specimen mounted by 

 Mr. Zappey is' shown in the Indo-Asiatic room. 



The thanks of the Museum are tendered the New York zoologi- 

 cal society which has given, as in former years, a considerable 

 number of reptiles ; most of these have made, through Mr. Nelson's 

 skill, admirable exhibition mounts. It was a satisfaction to the 

 Museum to be able to offer this Society, as a slight return for 

 similar favors in past years, a living Haytian Solenodon which 

 had been in the Museum since 8 December, 1908; unfortunately, 

 however, it survived in New York but a few months, and its 

 skeleton, prepared by Mr. Nelson, is on exhibition in the systematic 

 collection of mammals of the Museum. 



For a collection of shells of great scientific value, the Museum is 

 indebted to Mrs. F. Woodward Earl (Marie Binney Earl). Dr. 

 Amos Binney, Mrs. Earl's grandfather, was the author of a work 



