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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



first series of the duplicates of the Mollusca and Brachiopoda of 

 the Albatross expeditions of 1891, and 1904-1905, and also for a 

 similar set of Pacific sponges identified by Dr. Robert von Len- 

 denfeld. 



Additional specimens of Icelandic birds and of birds' eggs, the 

 generous gift of Messrs. Hastings and de Milhau, have been re- 

 ceived; the specimens on exhibition number sixty-seven, all modern 

 and most effective mounts. 



Dr. George W. Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham, and 

 Mr. James H. Emerton have added to their previous valuable 

 donations the type specimens of the species of spiders recently 

 described by them. 



Dr. William Lord Smith has been good enough to send the 

 Museum some interesting mammals and birds taken during a 

 recent trip to Mexico, and it is largely to his initiative that the 

 Museum will benefit from a similar expedition to British East 

 Africa undertaken in company with Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. 

 Gorham Brooks. 



The Museum is indebted to Dr. C. B. Davenport, and to Messrs. 

 E. N. Fischer, J. W. Pierce, and J. D. Sornborger for specimens for 

 its collection of domesticated animals, to Mr. J. F. Schindler for 

 corals and sponges, to Dr. R. T. Jackson for many desirable speci- 

 mens both fossil and recent, and to Mrs. A. W. Boswick, Messrs. 

 William Dirrett and W. C. Forbes, and to Drs. H. B. Bigelow, 

 Theodore Lyman, and J. C. Phillips for specimens of mammals. 



Collections of alcoholic fishes and of casts of fishes have been 

 long recognized as unsatisfactory for exhibition purposes, and have 

 been withdrawn in favor of mounted specimens as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. With the aid of a gift received from Mr. D. L. Pickman, 

 the collection of North American species has been increased and 

 all the specimens shown here, as w T ell as many of those in other 

 of the faunal collections and in the systematic collection, are recent 

 mounts by Mr. Sherman F. Denton. 



A few of the additions of especial interest or rarity to the collec- 

 tions on exhibition may be noted:— 



An adult male and an adult female of the California Elephant 

 Seal, Macrorhinus angustirostria from Guadalupe Island, was pur- 

 chased of Rowland Ward. This species, if not extinct, is at least 

 on the verge of extermination, and while its fate is regrettable, the 



