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presented a skeleton of an eland ([[underlined]] Oreas canna) [[/underlined]]

Mr. A.E. Brown, Superintendent of the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens and Mr. W.A. Conklin, Superintendent of the Central Park Menagerie, New York, have presented many valuable specimens.  Notable among those received from the former gentleman was an Ibex ([[underlined]] Capra ibex [[/underlined]]), a well-known European species and one whose extermination seems imminent.  Mr. Conklin presented, among many valuable specimens, two Hog deer, [[underlined]] Cervus procinus [[/underlined]].

[[double underlined]] Aquatic Mammals [[/double underlined]].

[[underlined]] Seals [[/underlined]].  A series of five young Greenlaw seals obtained by Dr. C.H. Merriam from Labrador and a number of Fur-seals and one specimen of Steller's sea-lion collected by Mr. C.H. Townsend in St. Paul's Isl. Alaska, together with another of the latter species obtained by Dr. Stejneger in Bering Isl. were the only