18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



During the year, the larger collections received were : — remains 

 of land mammals from cave deposits and recent mammals from 

 Cuba, collected by Prof. Carlos de la Torre, Dr. Thomas Barbour, 

 Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin Warner, about 250 specimens: 

 remains of Isolobodon from Porto Rico, collected by Mr. and Mrs. 

 S. K. Lothrop, about 50 specimens; remains of five other extinct 

 Porto Rican genera, collected by Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L. 

 Peters; an important collection of bone's of Cuban ground sloths 

 from Dr. Barbour, about 220 pieces; 175 skulls and other bones 

 of seals from Greenland, from the Peabody Museum; 100 alco- 

 holic bats from Cuba from Professor de la Torre; 90 skins and 

 skulls from southeastern California, from Col. John E. Thayer; 

 125 skins and alcoholics from northwestern Peru, collected by 

 Mr. G. K. Noble, as Zoologist of the Expedition to Peru. 



In exchange there have been received, 17 fossil specimens from 

 Patagonia and the early Tertiary of North America, from the 

 Museum of Amherst College; a rare monkey, Preslytis potenziani; 

 and two examples of the Porto Rican bat, Erophylla portoricen- 

 sis, both species new to the collection, from the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



Specimens have been loaned for study to nine persons. 



Single specimens, or small series of specimens have been received 

 from Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, William Brewster, 

 G. C. Deane, J. W. Elliot, T. R. Fisher, A. B. Fuller, R. T. 

 Jackson, J. E. Law, Theodore Lyman, W. M. Mann, R. M. 

 Marble, George Nelson, J. L. Peters, J. B. Rorer, J. E. Thayer, 

 Carlos de la Torre, C. W. Townsend, and J. B. Woodworth; also 

 from Mrs. A. T. Friend, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Lothrop, the Florida 

 Amalgamated Phosphate Company, the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, the Peabody Museum, and the Shaler Memorial Expedi- 

 tion. 



