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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



to take of the collections in their charge. It is also under obliga- 

 tions to Miss E. B. Bryant for her interest in the collection of 

 spiders upon which she has spent much time, and to Mr. Thomas 

 Barbour for his voluntary work upon the collections in Mr. Gar- 

 man's charge. 



Mr. Nelson, in addition to much routine work incidental to his 

 position as Preparator, has spent considerable time in caring for the 

 Solenodons both living and dead, has mounted a number of mam- 

 mals, and of birds and birds' nests for exhibition, and has con- 

 tinued his successful work upon the Reptiles. His photographic 

 and mechanical skill has been of distinct service. In a short trip 

 to Florida he collected a series of specimens, chiefly snakes and 

 turtles, which are in preparation for exhibition. 



Dr. G. M. Allen has been employed for three days weekly for 

 ten months, and has completed the identification and rearrange- 

 ment of the osteo logical collection of mammals. He has made 

 some progress in the rearrangement of the skins of mammals and 

 has begun a card catalogue of the same. He has also completed 

 an extended report on the Agouta, Sole?iodon paradoxus. In May 

 he left Cambridge for British East Africa where he will spend sev- 

 eral months collecting in the interests of the Museum. 



Mr. E. P. Van Duzee's services were secured for two weeks, 

 during which time he identified, labeled, and arranged a consider- 

 able part of the study series of Hemiptera. 



In a brief visit to Jamaica, undertaken at the request of Mr. 

 Agassiz, Dr. H. L. Clark obtained in addition to a series of Echino- 

 neus the special object of his search, a number of other echinoderms, 

 as well as some crustaceans and fishes. 



The Library contains 45,655 volumes, and 41,808 pamphlets; 

 1,097 volumes, and 1,542 pamphlets have been added during the 

 year. The accessions include several hundred volumes of the 

 Josiah Dwight Whitney books received from Miss Maria Whitney, 

 and a large number of pamphlets, author's separates, relating to 

 mammals, a gift of Mr. Outram Bangs. 



The publications for the year include ten numbers of the Bulletin, 

 one volume and three numbers of the Memoirs, and the Annual 

 Report, a total of 1,151 (545 quarto and 606 octavo) pages, with 

 176 (122 quarto and 54 octavo) plates. The volume and two 

 numbers of the Memoirs and four numbers of the Bulletin contain 



