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REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



The principal collections received during the year were those 

 made and presented by Mr. F. R. Wulsin from Madagascar and 

 British East Africa; these collections include about 300 speci- 

 mens. Other of the larger collections, are: about 175 specimens 

 from Alaska and Eastern Siberia, the gift of Col. J. E. Thayer and 

 Prof. Theodore Lyman, collected by Messrs. Joseph Dixon and 

 W. S. Brooks; 26 specimens collected in Newfoundland by Mr. 

 G. K. Noble and presented by Col. J. E. Thayer; about 80 speci- 

 mens from Mt. Whitney, collected by Dr. G. M. Allen, presented 

 by Prof. Theodore Lyman; 20 specimens from Borneo collected 

 and presented by Prof. H. W. Smith; 150 bats from Santo Domingo 

 collected by Mr. J. L. Peters, and presented by Mrs. Ezra R. 

 Thayer, Mrs. C. G. Weld, and Dr. Thomas Barbour; a large 

 collection of Cuban bats presented by Dr. Carlos de la Torre; 

 extensive series of skeletons and other osteological specimens, 

 including cotypes of the Gorilla ; also fossils (Eser Collection) have 

 been presented by the Boston Society of Natural History. Single 

 specimens or small series of specimens have been received from 

 Messrs. H. R. Amory, Thomas Barbour, W. W. Barbour, J. H. 

 Blake, Wendell Blanchard, W. B. Cabot, W. E. Castle, H. L. 

 Clark, Walter Deane, Walter Faxon, R. T. Fisher, A. B. Fuller, 

 T. H. Hays, George Nelson, J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, C. T. 

 Ramsden, J. B. Rorer, H. W. Smith, Carlos de la Torre, and 

 Francis Watts; also from Andover Academy, the Florida Amal- 

 gamated Phosphate Company, and Lexington Park. 



Exchanges have been made with the Carnegie Museum and the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



Material for study has been loaned to the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum; the U. S. Biological Survey; the American Museum of 

 Natural History; and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Uni- 

 versity of California. 



