50 BULLETIN 41, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MU«EUM. 



92. 



IHoM. (huAin), Charles, tvith Spencer F. Baird. United States | Exploring Expo- 



clitiou. I Diiriug tlie years | 1838, 1889, 1840, 1841,1842. | Under tLe (•(.niuiand 



of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Vol. XX. | — | Herpetology. | Prepared niider 



tlie superiuteudeucy of | S. F. Baird. | With a folio Atlas. | — | Philadelpliia: 



I I'rinted by C. Sherman & Son. | 1858. 4to. pp. (4), v-ix, 492. 



Tliis hook was not -written by Professor Baird, who assures me that he did not toiu-h pen 

 to it. The l)Ook was done entirelj' by Dr. Charles Girard, but through some techuicality 

 his name was not allowed to appear on the title page by the naval authorities having the 

 matter in charge, who insisted in publishing the book under the name of Professor Baird, to 

 whom the original contract was given out. The matter is explained fully in the introduc- 

 tion, which is quoted entire; 



" Intkoddction.— The Joint Committee of the Library of Congress entered into an engage- 

 nu'nt with the undersigned, in 1857, to prepare the Keport upon the Herpetological coUec- 

 lious made by the United States Exploring Expedition. Finding that other duties would 

 interfere with the proper performance of the work, he was penuitted to associate Dr. Girard 

 with him in its execution, by whom the determinations and descriptions have been made, the 

 drawings overlooked, and the work carried through the press. S. F. Baird. "Washington, 

 May, 1858. (p. vii.)" 



As is well known, only 100 copies of these reports were published by the Government, while 

 the authors of the separate volumes were allowed to have 150 more printed at their own indi 

 vidual expense. In accordance with this ruling a special edition of this report was luiblished 

 by Girard with the following title : 



1858. Girard, Charles. Fnited vStates | Exploring Expedition. | During tlic years | 1838, 

 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. | Under the command of | Charles Wilkes, U. 8. JST. | \'o\. XX. | Her- 

 petology. I By Charles Girard, | Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, | Corresponding Member of 

 the Boston 1 Society of ISTatural History; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Pliiladel])hia: | 

 the Lyceum of Xatural History of New York ; the Elliot Society of | Natural History of Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina; | the California Academy | of Natural Sciences, San Francisco; the "So- 

 ciete Helvetique ] des Sciences NatureUes;" the " Naturforschende Gesell- | schaftin Zurich ; 

 and the " Societ6 dcs Sciences | Naturelles de Neuchatel (Switzerland)," etc., | with a folio 

 atlas. I Philadelphia: | >T. B. Lippincott & Co. | 1858. | 4to. pp. i-xvii, 1-496, pU, i-xxxii. 



Several additional plates were included in the atlas to this edition. 



Order I. Bateachia. 



Tribus I. Batrachia urodela 2 



a. Trematodeira 3 



j3. Atretodeira 3 



Family Salamandrid^ 4 



Taricha, Gray. 



Taricha toroga, Gray, pi. i, figs. 1-8 5 



Puget Sound, Oregon; San Francisco, California. 



Family PLEThODONTlD.^ 7 



Axaides, Baird. 



Anaides, Lugubris, Baird, pi. i, tigs. 26-33 8 



San Francisco, California. 



Heredia, Girard 10 



Ueredia oregonensis, Girard, pi. i, figs. 18-28 11 



Discovery Harbor, Puget Sound (Oregon). 



XiPHONURA, Tsch l.'i 



Xiphonura tenebrosa, Grd., pi. i, tigs. 9-17 14 



Oregon. 



Tribus 1 L Batrachia Anura 16 



Family Ranid^. 



Australia. 



K ana, Linn 17 



liana aurora, B. & G., pi. ii, figs. 1-6 18 



Columbia Eivcr, Oregon. 



liana 1) ret iosa, B. & G., pi. ii, figs. Ki-18 20 



Puget Sound, Oregon. 



liana Draiitoni, B. & G., pi. ii, tigs. 19-24 23 



California. 



liana maritima, Eis.so, pi. ii, tigs. 7-12 25 



I.sland of Madeira. 



