26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 
By Ovurram BANGS. 
As in recent years the most generous contributor to the collec- 
tion is Col. J. E. Thayer. His gifts include 300 skins and skulls 
from along the Kolyma River, Siberia, collected by Johan Koren; 
125 from Kerr Co., and Chisos Mountains, Texas, collected by 
F. B. Armstrong, and 125 from Pinte Mountains, Cal., collected 
by W. W. Brown, Jr. | 
Single specimens or small series of specimens have been received 
from Mrs. J. B. Rorer, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, 
J. T. Benson, H. B. Bigelow, C. T. Brues, T. M. Carnegie, W. E. 
Castle, John Caswell, H. L. Clark, L. H. Heilbroner, C. C. Little, 
J. L. Peters, J. B. Rorer, H. W. Smith, J. D. Sornborger, Roland 
Thaxter, and E. H. Wilson; the City of Boston (Department of 
Parks), the Boston Society of Natural History, Bussey Institu- 
tion, and the Peabody: Museum of American Archaeology and 
Ethnology. 
Exchanges have been made with the American Museum of 
Natural History, the British Museum, the Muséum d’Histoire 
Naturelle (Paris) and with Mr. Chester Stock. 
Two hundred specimens from Kamerun have been purchased of 
the Rev. George Schwab. 
