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acknowledgement is due Miss A. A. Sprague, Mrs. Mary L. 

 Russell, Mrs. Louis A. Shaw, and Messrs. Thomas Barbour, 

 C. L. Hay, E. C. Lee, J. C. Phillips, and J. E. Thayer. 



As in previous years, valuable specimens of mammals and birds 

 have been added this year to the collections of the Museum, through 

 the generosity of Mr. John E. Thayer. A number of Birds-of- 

 Paradise, some of marked beauty, are among Mr. Thayer's gifts. 



To Dr. J. C. Phillips the Museum is indebted for a large series 

 of skulls, horns, and antlers of mammals, mostly game ungulates. 

 Many of these were new to the Museum collections. Dr. Phillips 

 has also presented very many skins of pheasants and ducks, both 

 terms used in their widest significance, and many of the species 

 of these two important groups of birds included in Dr. Phillips's 

 gift were also not well represented in the collection. It is to Dr. 

 Phillips's liberality that the Museum owes the services of its sec- 

 ond Preparator. In addition to the above gifts Dr. Phillips was 

 instrumental in securing for the Museum the Bryant-Palmer 

 collection of Javan birds and mammals. This collection con- 

 tains nearly one thousand skins of birds, more than one hundred 

 of which were not represented previously in the collection of the 

 Museum. The Bryant-Palmer accession contains also a few nests 

 and eggs of birds and several hundred mammals, skins and skulls. 



Mr. L. J. de G. de Milhau has been good enough to continue 

 his gift of Icelandic birds, and to Dr. S. B. Wolbach the Museum 

 owes several mammals, birds, reptiles, and arachnids obtained 

 while he was attached to the expedition of the Liverpool School 

 of Tropical Medicine to the Gambia in 1911. 



Col. John Caswell has sent to the Museum a few mounted birds 

 and a number of mounted heads of African ungulates. Some of 

 the latter, the Giraffe, Rhinoceros, and Hippopotamus make a 

 notable addition to the series of heads and horns on exhibition in 

 the Divinity Avenue entrance hall. 



There are many specimens of scientific interest among the 

 skeletons, skulls, and casts of bones of vertebrates contained in 

 the kind gift of Dr. R. T. Jackson. 



The Museum is indebted to Messrs. J. H. Emerton and R. V. 

 Chamberlin for the type specimens of new species of Araneida 

 and of Myriopoda described by them. 



From Dr. P. P. Calvert and Mr. E. B. Williamson the Museum 

 has received a large number of Odonata; many of these are new 

 to the collection and all are most desirable as representing espe- 

 cially rare forms or such as extend the distribution of the species 

 as shown by the Museum collection. 



