38 Zoology. 



Hildebrandt (J. M.). [1879] 



6 Mammals from Teita, E. Africa, including typical specimens of 

 Ehinolophus hildebrandti and Macroscelides rufescens, Peters. Purchased. 



Hinde (S. L.). [1896] 



170 Mammals from British East Africa, mostly from Machakos. 



Mr. Hinde's important collections include the types of a number of 

 new forms, of which the most notable are Scotsscus (g. n.) hindei, Lxphotis 

 (g. n.) ivintoni, Mus hindei and Mldegardess, Thos. 



Hodgson (Brian H.). [1841] 



Formerly British Ptesident at Khatmandu, Nepal. 



980 Mammals from Nepal, Tibet, and Sikhim, being the material on 

 which Mr. Hodgson's many papers on Himalayan Mammals were based. 

 Also a number of human skulls. Presented. 



Mr. Hodgson's collection was without doubt the finest and most 

 important donation that the Museum ever received from any single 

 person. This is due to the large size of the collection, the numbers of 

 specimens, the accompaniment of skulls and skeletons, and above all to 

 the very great number of types that are contained in it. 



So important was Mr. Hodgson's collection considered by the Trustees 

 that they published, in 1846, a " Catalogue of the specimens and drawings 

 of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet presented by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., to the British Museum," and a second edition in 1863, including all 

 the later additions. 



Mr. Hodgson was a voluminous writer, and perhaps over-ready describer 

 of species, so that the possession of the whole of the material on which he 

 founded his work is of priceless value. Many of his specimens were also 

 described by Gray, Horsfield, Blyth, and others. The number of types 

 in the Hodgson collection is too great for enumeration, but the following 

 are a few of the most notable : — Semnopithecus schistaceus, Prionodon 

 pardicolor, Herpestes urva, Vulpes ferrilatus ; several species of Putorius ; 

 a multitude of Bats, Insectivores and Rodents ; Ovis nahura, Nemorhasdus 

 hubalinus, Gazella picticaudata, Porcula salva?iia, Manis aurita; and 

 finally, the one Mr. Hodgson himself was most proud of, the remarkable 

 Budorcas taxicolor, of the Mishmi Hills, north of Assam. 



Mr. Hodgson was fortunately far-seeing enough to realise the great 

 importance of osteological collections, and to insist that the whole of his 

 collections, the skulls as well as the skins, should be accepted or rejected 

 together. He thus forced the authorities to countenance Dr. Gray's 

 efforts to make an osteological collection, for up to that date it had been 

 thought that skulls and skeletons were only suited to the College of 

 Surgeons. 



Owing to carelessness about geographical details, the whole of Mr. 

 Hodgson's collections were registered as from " Nepal," but, as Dr. Scully 

 has shown, it was only the animals presented before 1847 which were really 

 from Nepal, and all the later ones came from Sikhim, Mr. Hodgson having 

 finally left the former country in 1844, and, after a visit to England, 

 settled for some years at Darjiling. 



Hollis (Edwin). [1901] 



102 Mammals from the Touchwood Hills, Assiniboia, Central Canada. 

 Presented. 



The first modern specimens received by the Museum from this region. 



