the majority of the specimens fall within the scope of the genera alcelaphus, anomalurus, cephalophus, cercocebus, cercopithecus, colobus, euoticus, felis, gazella, gorilla, kobus, pan, redunca, sylvicapra, syncerus and tragelaphuse (number of the specimens exceeds 100). and, except the two presented specimens of chamois (rupicapra rupicapra) collected in swiss alps in 1905, all the mammal specimens in the powell-cotton museum were collected in africa and asia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, which came from the following countries or regions: abyssinia, algeria, angola, cameroon, central african republic, chad, congo, ethiopia, guinea, guinea, india, kashmir, kenya, morocco, nigeria, ogaden, pakistan, somalia, south africa, sudan, tanzania, tibet, tunisia, uganda, zambia and zimbabwe.