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When Mr. James H. Hyde gave the library for the new Harvard Union a short time ago, he also gave $20,000 as a fund for the purchase of books and for the maintenance of the library. Of this some four or five thousand will be needed immediately to start...
The Museum of Comparative Zoology has recently secured the celebrated collection of mamma's made during the past ten years by Mr. Outram Bangs, and his brother, Mr. E. A. Fangs. The importance of the acquisition is increased by the fact that the working collection of mammals previously owned by...
The new collection comprises some ten thousand skins, mostly of Eastern North American specimens, and includes about a hundred type specimens. The skulls of the animals are kept in separate cases, and are numbered to correspond with the respective skins-a method not adopted in the preparation of the original...
The collections in a room on the fifth floor of the museum. Large zinc cases have been made, with sliding wooden travs to hold the specimens. Mr. Cutram Bangs has been appointed assistant in mammalogy at the museum, and will have charge of the arrangement and maintenance of the collection...
The most valuable single gift of the year is the large ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands, which was made by Dr. Alexander Agassiz and Dr. W. MeM, Woodsworth on the execution of the U. S. Fish Commission S. S. Albatross in 1899-1900. The specimens were largely gathered...