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New arrangements were made necessary especially by the fact that the Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, of the Department of Agriculture, had agreed to deposit in the Museum its valuable collection of North American Mammals.

The new cases are not ready at this date, but it is expected that they will be in use within a few months.

Among the accessions of the year, are many interesting specimens. Two specimens of the rare Florida Muskrat, [[underline]] N. alleni [[/underline]], were presented by Wm. Wiltfeld, Esq. Mr. Loren W. Green presented a series of excellent skins of [[underline]] Tamias striatus Cysteri [[/underline]], from Charlestown, N.H.

A second specimen of [[underline]] Hesperomys truei [[/underline]] was received from Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, and one [[underline]] Vespertilis Congicrus [[/underline]] from Judge J.G. Swan. Col. Cecil Clay obtained after great exertions, and presented to the Museum, the skin of a full-grown male moose.   It is intended that