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Europe. While the majority of the species and races are repre- 

 sented, the collection cannot be considered rich in European ma- 

 terial, and as comparatively little work is done here on European 

 herpetology, there seems little purpose in duplicating series which 

 may be consulted in the national collections of Europe. Collections 

 of outstanding importance from the regions are those from Germany 

 (W. Kukenthal), Austria (VV. Wolterstorff), and Spain (F. Z. 

 Cervera). 



Asia. By exchanges with the Leningrad Museum a representative 

 series of Northern Asiatic species has been secured, and of India 

 from the Indian Museum. From the latter region R. H. Beddome 

 contributed specimens, and M. M. Carlton made extensive donations 

 of reptiles from the Kulu Valley. From China we have the collec- 

 tions of F. R. VVulsin and J. Graham, with J. T. Wright's perfectly 

 preserved material from Indo-China and Annam. A. Owston's col- 

 lectors worked in Formosa, on behalf of Dr. Barbour, who presented 

 the resulting material and the types based upon it. From Siam, 

 Celebes and Timor, collections were received from Dr. Malcolm 

 Smith, and several fine consignments from the interior of Sarawak 

 from Harrison W. Smith; from Borneo, small collections by W. T. 

 Hornaday and E. Mjoberg. Edward Taylor's third Philippine col- 

 lection, exceptionally rich in types, was presented by a friend of the 

 department, as w^ell as his own extensive East Indian collections, and 

 a portion of the Douglas Burden-Emmett Dunn material from the 

 same regions, so that it may be truly said that the Museum has a fine 

 and representative selection of species occurring in this region. 



Africa. The Franz Werner expedition, of 1928, rounded off" the 

 already almost complete series of the North African fauna, of the 

 Mediterranean littoral. From the Liberian region was received the 

 very fine collection made by G. M. Allen and his associates, who 

 accompanied Dr. R. P. Strong on the Harvard Medical School Ex- 

 pedition. Over a long series of years G. Schwab has been contribut- 

 ing reptiles and amphibians from the Cameroons. The Belgian 

 Congo series was enriched by some of the Herbert Lang-James 

 Chapin material received from the American Museum of Natural 

 History and more recently by specimens obtained by J. Bequaert. 

 In 1 925, W. S. Brooks visited South Africa, and the resulting material, 

 when added to the old Layard collection, and to numerous speci- 



