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[[double underline]] 1. Review of important accessions
Terrestrial Mammals. [[/double underline]]

[[underline]] United States [[/underline]] - The collection of indigenous mammals has been enriched by the addition of two skins of the Black-footed ferret, [[underlined]] Pulorius nigripes [[/underlined]], collected by Mr. A.B. Baker in Trego County, Kansas.

Several interesting collections were received from California and Oregon, the most extensive being that of Mr. Walter E. Bryant.

A good skeleton of the common Black bear, previously wanting to the collection, was prepared from the carcass of an individual which died in confinement in the grounds of the Government Asylum for the Insane, Washington.

[[underlined]] Other parts of the world [[/underlined]].  Messrs. Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson, the well known circus proprietors, have placed the Museum under fresh