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2 squirrels, coneys and ground rats. The naturalists attached to the U. S. Astronomical Expedition to Angola, Africa, procured two fine skins of the Bush Buck, [[underline]]Tragelaphus gratus[[/underline]], and some smaller mammals. The Marquis Doria forwarded to the Museum a specimen of the exceedingly rare African rodent, [[underline]]Lophiomys imhausi[[/underline]], and a hundred bats in alcohol, for which an equivalent in North American bats is to be returned. The trustees of the British Museum presented 13 bats in alcohol. A small collection of beautifully-prepared skins of the small mammals of Hungary was