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PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
continued during the coming year. Professor Kingsley of Tufts 
college, to whom our collection of Amphipoda was loaned for 
investigation, reports that about one fourth of the specimens have 
been named and that the whole collection is in good condition. 
Birds and Mammals. 
The New England collection of birds was removed from the cases 
-during the early part of this official year and the new backs put 
into the cases with its new shelving brings the specimens close to 
the glass where they can be readily seen and examined. The 
specimens were removed and returned to their places by Miss 
Martin, and the arrangement was subsequently revised by Mr. 
Batchelder. 
The Mammalia were also removed and the cases in the main 
gallery immediately adjoining the entrance to Room N were 
deepened. This enabled Miss Martin to place the collection of 
New England mammals outside of Room N and thus make suffi¬ 
cient space for the extension of the collection of birds within that 
room. The arrangement of the mammals also was revised by Mr. 
Batchelder. 
A railing case of improved pattern was built early in the summer 
along the east side of the upper gallery for the accommodation of 
the larger specimens of birds’ nests and eggs promised by the 
Nuttall ornithological club. Mr. Batchelder removed from their 
cases all of the old collection of birds’ nests and eggs, which had 
for some years been in bad condition, and cleaned and rearranged 
them, weeding out undesirable material during the process. A jjart 
of the donation of the Nuttall club has been received and placed 
in the cases by Mr. Batchelder. This makes a tine appearance, 
and the sincere thanks of the Society are due to the members of 
the Club for a donation which has so greatly improved this part 
of our New England collections, and to Mr. Batchelder for the 
expense and trouble incurred in appropriately mounting these 
handsome specimens. Unfortunately Mr. Batchelder met with a 
serious accident a few weeks since, and this has stopped for the 
present the active work he was doing in the collections under his 
charge, but, as this report shows, his efforts this year had already 
laid the Society under obligations which, should be gratefully 
acknowledged. 
