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[[embossed oval of building]] 45 tained by private corporations and individuals. The [[strikethrough]]colle[[/strikethrough]] Smithsonian collectors from whom mammalia were received at this time [[strikethrough]]were occupied[[/strikethrough]] ^[[labored]] mostly in regions south of the United States, - in Mexico, Yucatan, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Tehuantepec. From the South American continent very few specimens were received. [[strikethrough]]Fro[[/strikethrough]] British and Rusian American, in the contrary, large contributions came to swell the accumulations [[strikethrough]]unreadable[[/strikethrough]] of other[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] years. The Hudson's Bay Company was especially generous in its efforts, and its officers [[strikethrough]]car[[/strikethrough]] were untiring in their zeal, [[strikethrough]]both[[/strikethrough]] collecting great quantities of valuable material themselves and aiding in every possible manner the collectors who were dispatched from the [[strikethrough]]Smithsonian[[/strikethrough]] Institution. [[strikethrough]]From Alaska[[/strikethrough]] The chief ^[[Alaskan]] collection of this time were those [[strikethrough]]of the[[/strikethrough]] derived from the ^[[naturalists attached to the]] vigorously-pushed but ill-fated expedition