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the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, as well as to 

 museums in Switzerland, Germany, and France. A number of am- 

 phibians were sent to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where they were 

 studied by Paul Brocchi while he was preparing his "fitude des 

 Batraciens de I'Amerique Centrale," pubHshed in 1882 as a part of 

 the contribution made by the "Mission Scientifique au Mexique et 

 dans I'Amerique Centrale." Among the numerous specimens col- 

 lected by Sumichrast during his residence on the Istlmius of Tehuan- 

 tepec in the State of Oaxaca are the t3^pes of Hylella sumichrasti 

 Brocchi, H. platycephala Cope, Cystignathus perlaevis Cope, C. 

 lahialis Cope, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus (Cope), Syrrhophus leprus 

 Cope, and Bujo canalijerus Cope. Sumichrast died of cholera on 

 September 26, 1882, at Tonala in Chiapas. 



A few toads and frogs collected inl863 and 1864 by Dr. H. Berendt 

 in Tabasco, chiefly at San Juan Bautista, were presented by him to 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



At the solicitation of Governor Jose Salazar y Larregui, Arthur 

 Schott, who had previously been employed as a naturalist on the 

 United States and Mexican Boundary Commission under the direction 

 of Maj. W. H. Emory, was appointed to the Comision Cientifica de 

 Yucatan. By March 20, 1865, he had collected 300 specimens, accord- 

 ing to a letter written from Merida, Yucatan. The type specimen 

 of the peculiar Triprion petasatus (Cope) was collected by Schott near 

 this locality. A letter received by Baird on June 6, 1865, states that 

 Schott had made a trip that included Sisal, Campeche, and Celestun. 

 On November 21, 1866, Schott returned to Washington, D. C, but 

 later went back to Yucatan and collected there until 1868. Schott 

 collected also in Sonora in 1871. 



From Mazatlan in Sinaloa, specimens collected by Ferdinand 

 Bischoff were received by the Smithsonian Institution in 1868. Dr. 

 Gideon C. Lincecum, an entomologist, presented amphibians col- 

 lected by himself in 1869 at Tuxpam, Vera Cruz. There is a specimen 

 of Rhinophrynus dorsalis in the collection that was taken by Dr. T. H. 

 Richardson at Cordoba in Vera Cruz on October 19, 1874. 



From time to time, beginning in 1877 and continuing until 1887, 

 Alfred Duges sent to the National Museum specimens labeled as 

 coming from Guanajuato, though Dr. E. W. Nelson is of the opinion 

 that some of them at least were given him by students and that the 

 specimens actually may not have come from that locality. This natu- 

 ralist also supplied the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris with 

 similar collections. Professor Duges collected the type specimens 

 of Scaphiopus dugesii Brocchi, Cystignathus microtis Cope, Eleuther- 

 odactylus aljredi (Boulenger), E. augusti (Duges), Syrrhophus guttilatus 

 (Cope), BuJo monksiae Cope, and Rana montezumae concolor Cope. 



From C. T. Hoege, a collector previously employed by F. D. 

 Godman, the National Museum received amphibians collected in 



