4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



The principal addition to the exhibition collections lias been a 

 series of Japanese siliceous sponges for the Pacific room. A 

 number of birds have been added to the fannal and systematic 

 series, and a fine specimen of the Snow Leopard of Thibet has been 

 placed in the Europaeo-Siberian room. An additional case has also 

 been constructed in this room. It is hoped that when the next 

 report is issued the exhibit of palaeozoic invertebrates will be open 

 to the public, as considerable progress has been made in preparing 

 the material for this exhibit. The Museum Assistants report the 

 storage collections to be in excellent condition. In some depart- 

 ments the accessions have been of unusual value. Details of 

 these accessions will be found in the special reports. 



The installation of the large Bangs collection of mammals is 

 now complete, and the old Museum collections have been incorpo- 

 rated with it in a separate room. Mr. Bangs has given much of 

 his time to this work. A large and valuable series of South 

 American mammals has been received from the Messrs. Bangs. 

 The expenses of installing the Bangs collection were partly met 

 by an appropriation of five hundred dollars from the Corporation of 

 the University, applied toward the construction of storage cases. 



Most important of the additions to the Department of Ornithol- 

 ogy are the collections from the Hawaiian and Liu Kiu Islands. 

 The latter collection contained a number of new forms, and has 

 been reported on by Mr. Bangs in the " Bulletin " of the Museum. 



There have been many gifts to the collection of recent inverte- 

 brates, among which are the Emeiton collection of spiders, the 

 series of American ants from Professor W. M. Wheeler. From Mr. 

 F. Du Cane Godman, through the British Museum, there has been 

 received a set of duplicates of the land and fresh-water Mollusca 

 of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. A representative collection 

 of the rich siliceous sponge fauna of Japan, has been received from 

 Mr. Agassiz. This exceptionally fine material has been mounted, 

 and forms part of the exhibit of the Pacific room. Mr. Agassiz 

 has also given to the Museum a large collection of alcoholic Jap- 

 anese Marine radiates. From the U. S. National Museum has 

 been received a duplicate series of the "Albatross" (1891) ophi- 

 urans reported on by Liitken and Mortensen in the " Memoirs " 

 of the Museum. The " Blake " Bathynomus material has been 

 returned by Professor Bouvier, whose report will appear in the 

 " Memoirs. " The Museum leeches have been sent to Professor 

 Percy Moore of Philadelphia for study. 



