Abstract

THE two most important additions to the Mammal Section of the Zoological Department during the present month are–the bequest by the late Mr. Norman B. Smith of his collection of Rhodesian, East African, and Sudanese game trophies, and a collection of mammals from South-west Africa presented by Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton and Mr. Christopher Powell-Cotton. An important addition to the Osteological Section is the skeleton of a Hunter's hartebeest (Damaliscus hunteri) from the Tana Valley. The increasing scarcity of this species makes this specimen of special value; it is the gift of Messrs. Rowland Ward. The Museum has acquired from Lieut.-Colonel F. M. Bailey, who has just vacated the post of British envoy to the Court of Nepal, a large collection of birds made in that

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