6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Museum is under obligations for the care they have taken of their 

 several Departments. The special reports of the assistants give 

 the usual details of the year's work. 



For the Exhibition Collections Mr. Agassiz has given a magnifi- 

 cent Manchurian Tiger (Felis mongolica) , a Bald-headed Chim- 

 panzee (Anthropopithecus tchego), and three Hartebeests, Coke's, 

 Swayne's, and the Cape (Bubalis cokei, B. sivaynei, and B. caama). 



The Museum will also receive as a gift from Mr. Agassiz a 

 male Okapi. Though properly an accession of next year the ex- 

 ceptional interest attached to the Okapi and the fact that this 

 specimen is the first of the species to be shown in a museum in 

 this country seems sufficient reason for its mention here. More- 

 over, competent authorities consider this the finest example of 

 the species hitherto mounted in England. 



It was mounted by Mr. Rowland Ward, and is well shown in 

 Plate 1. 



The Okapi is related to the Giraffe, having paired hoofs, 

 large ears, and a fairly long neck ; the legs and haunches are 

 striped instead of being spotted ; the male has a pair of single 

 bony horns covered with skin ; it is found in the forests of the 

 Congo. 



Stimulated by Mr. Agassiz's generous gifts a thorough re- 

 arrangement of the exhibition rooms devoted to the Europaeo- 

 Siberian and to the African Faunas has been undertaken ; for the 

 European Room this rearrangement is practically completed, and 

 for the African Room it is well under way. The new cases, built 

 from base to ceiling, with large panes of glass and without the 

 usual cross-bars, give a much improved appearance to the rooms, 

 while the simple expedient of placing the brackets on the upright 

 next the glass allows a far more effective display. 



There are two Exhibition Rooms yet to be opened to the public ; 

 these are the room devoted to the Mesozoic Fauna and the one 

 for Animals under domestication. 



It is expected that these rooms will be opened during the year 

 1906-07. The vertebrates for the Mesozoic Room are already 

 in place, but the invertebrates are yet to be selected, mounted, 

 and labelled. 



By devoting a room to animals under domestication, the 

 Museum realizes one of the plans of its founder. During his 

 early work here, Professor Agassiz personally, and with the aid of 

 his assistants, accumulated much valuable osteological material 



