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hundred from Southern Mexico (one hundred and thirteen spe- 

 cies), purchased, and one hundred and fifty from Colorado. The 

 Museum is indebted to Captain Charles Bendire for a small lot 

 from Washington Territory. There have been added to the Os- 

 teological series thirty mounted and ten unmounted skeletons. 

 Among the former are four very fine moa skeletons, representing 

 three species, obtained through Professor Ward. 



Owing to my illness during a large part of the year, little work 

 has been done on the collections of mammals and birds. Recently, 

 however, the material for the faunal collections has been placed 

 in the exhibition rooms, and the Indian and African rooms will 

 soon be added to those open to the public. Three fourths to 

 seven eighths of the species ordered for the faunal collections have 

 been received, toward the completion of which we are still receiv- 

 ing frequent instalments. 



The publication of a " Preliminary List of Works and Papers 

 relating to the Mammalian Orders Cete and Sirenia " was begun 

 early in the year in the Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 of the Territories (Vol. VI., pp. 399-562), but inability on the 

 part of the author to revise the proof-sheets necessitated the 

 suspension of the printing at the end of the first third of the 

 paper. 



