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2.  NAME, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR IMPORTANCE, THE ACCESSIONS OF THE YEAR WHICH DESERVE [[underline]]SPECIAL NOTICE[[/underline]], AND STATE IN EACH CASE WHETHER GIVEN, LENT, RECEIVED IN EXCHANGE OR PURCHASED? 

As in the last few years the chief accessions of interest are Dr. Abbott's contributions, which still continue to come in.  This year he sent a valuable series of skins of Lemurs and other smaller mammals from Madagascar, and also a collection from Kashmir, including [[strikethrough]]two[[/strikethrough]] a Kashmir stag and a Musk.

The Museum purchased a series of about 40 skins of the very rare mole, [[underline]]Neürotrichus gibbsii[[/underline]], from British Columbia.

The Curator (while in the service of the U. S. Fish Commission) & Mr. D. W. Prentiss, jr., collected 15 Fur Seals, with special view to forming a group, & other mammals of the Prybilof Ids. Alaska.

The La Plata Museum presented a ^[[mountable]] skin of the Chile deer, [[underline]] Cariacus Chilensis [[/underline]].

Lt. Wirt Robinson presented 14 small mammals of Venezuela.

From the National Zool. Park were received 49 mammals, chiefly [[strikethrough]]Am[[/strikethrough]] North American.

Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A. presented a number of miscellanous small mammals from Ft. Clark, Texas, & from Ft. Meyer, Va.

Dr. R. E. Call obtained and gave to the Museum 365 bats from Mammoth Cave, Ky.

Transcription Notes:
"Prybilof Ids" are the Prybilof Islands, four volcanic islands off the Alaskan coast.