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Mr. Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist.

Five groups have been placed in the exhibition hall, one if which, a group of Bisons, is one of the largest and most carefully executed works of its kind to be found in any museum.
 
More valuable material has been acquired by purchase and exchange and less by donations than in previous years.

Some interesting specimens were received from two collectors sent out by the Smithsonian Institution. With one or two exceptions very little material has been received from persons in the various branches of the Government.

No descriptions of new species of North American mammals have been published during the year, though announcements of the discovery of several have been made to some of the scientific societies.

[[diuble underlined]] Notes on important accessions. [[/double underlined]]

[[hand underlined]] North America. [[/underlined]] Selections were made from several collections of small mammals made by Mr. F.A. Stephens in the San Francisco Mts., Arizona, and the