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interior basin of California. A special report upon this collection has been prepared by the curator.

In addition to the collections mentioned in last years report as made by Mr. P. L. Jouy in Southern Arizona, quite a number of specimens were received from him during the present fiscal year. The excellent qualities of his collections and of his field observations are quite as marked in the latter as in the former.

From the same source the Museum procured the only extralimital collection worth mentioning, viz a number of reptiles and batrachians collected