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SUMMARY OF THE TYPE-SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS IN THE UNITED
STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, (IROUPED \\Y AUTHORS AND BY
OOLLECTORS.
The total nunil)or of type-specimens of mammals in the LTnited States National
Museum, as shown by the forej^oing catalogue, is 1,405. Of these, G92 are in the col-
lection of the Division of Mammals and 713 in the Biological Survey Collection.
As a matter of some interest, the follo'ving tables have been prepared. They show
the respective number of type-specimens described by different authors, and similarly
the number collected by different persons.
A large i)roportion of the types have been described by recent authors, who have
worked with large series of sjjecimens and with careful as well as modern methods of
discrimination. Nearly every prominent worker in the history of American mammalogy
is represented. Thus, the list includes such well-known names as Audubon,
Bachman, Baird, Cassin, Cope, Cones, Kennicott, LeCcmte, and Peale, and others
equally i)rominent among the living zoologists. The list of collectors also includes
many highly honored names, especially of those connected with early government ex-
ploring expeditions and surveys. The large number of type-specimens of African
and Malayan mammals is due almost entirely to the enthtisiasm of Dr. W. L. Abbott,
who has devoted the best years of his life to exploring regions previously but little
known. He has generously presented his collections to the National Museum. Dr.
E. A. Mearns, U. S. A., has also been a generous contributor of specimens, especially
from the region of the Mexican boundary and from the Philippines. All the types
in the Biological Survey collection are the result of recent work, and a great majority
of them were collected and described by mammalogists on the staff of the Survey.
Type-specimens not at present existing in the National Museum are not taken
into account in the following lists. The discrepancy between the number of authors
and the number of collectors is caused by the inchision of cotypes described by one
author, but collected by more than one person.
AUTHORS W}1() U.WK DKSCinHKO TVPE-SI'ECIMEX.S OF MAMMALS IN THK UNITED STATES
NATIONAL MLSEIM, K.XCI.USIVE OF THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY COLLECTION.
Dr. Harrison Allen 17 ,
Dr.
Theodore Gill 6
Dr. J. A. Allen 21 Dr. F. V. Hayden I
Dr. Kiiud Andersen Robert Kennicott 4
J(»hii James Audubon and Rev. .Joliii Major John Eatton LeConte, U. S. A. 11
Bachman
Dr. W O. Ayres
1
1
Dr. Marcus W. Lyon,
Robinson and Lyon)
jr. (see also
37
Rev. John Bachman (see also Audu- Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A 77
bon and Bachman ) 1 Dr. C. Hart Merriam 28
Secretary S. F. Baird 57
Dr. J. L. Berlandier 1
Gerrit S. Miller, jr 317
E. W. Nelson 7
John Cassin 1 Wilfred H. Osgood 4
Frank M. Chajmian 1 Titian R. Peale 10
Dr. J. G. Cooper 1 Edward A. Preble I
Prof. E. I). Cope 1 1 Dr. D. W. Prentiss, jr 1
Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A 12 ,
Dr. W. II. Dall 2 >
James A. G. Rehn (see also Stone and
Rehn) 1
293