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work of the Department.

As a foundation for the work of representing graphically the geographical distribution of our North American mammals, copies have been made of all the available faunal lists about 67 in number, which have appeared from time to time in various works on the Nearctic fauna.

The Curator obtained some additional information regarding the type specimens of different species of  dolphins during a short journey in Europe in the early part of the year, and has added to this review of the family a synopsis and material for figures of all the species. The paper has not however, yet been published. He also prepared descriptions of two new rodents from