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Curators Reports file 
Living Animals
Aug. 1888.
W T Hornaday

[[preprinted]]
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary 
G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant Secretary, in charge of U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM [[/preprinted]]

[[preprinted]] Washington, [[/preprinted]] Sept 1, [[preprinted]] 188 [[/preprinted]] 8

Prof G. Brown Goode.
Assistant Secretary
In charge of the National Museum.

Sir:-

I have the honor to submit the following report for the Collection of Living Animals for the Month of August:-

The accessions during the month amounted to a total of 16 specimens, representing 11 species, 5 of which were new to the collection. All these accessions were received as gifts. The most valuable specimen was a fine young gray wolf, ([[underlined]] Canis lupus griseo-albus [[/underlined]]), from Mr C. A. Dole. of Glendive, Montana. I enclose a complete list of accessions for the month.

Owing to the pressure of business in connection with the plan for a Zoological Park, combined with work on my paper on the Extermination of the Bison, I have been compelled to forego the attention to the menagerie that I would otherwise have gladly devoted to it. There are many improvements to be made at the earliest possible moment.

Respectfully submitted.

W T Hornaday.
Curator.