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was for many years Mayor of San Fernando. Despite his many 

 and valuable services to the Island however, he was not called 

 to the Legislature until March, 1893, when he had almost reached 

 the end of his long and useful career. 



Always in sympathy with anything which had for its object 

 the propagation of knowledge amongst the inhabitants, he identi- 

 fied himself with the Naturalists' Club in September, 1892, and 

 attended several of its meetings. Mr. Guppy was celebrated 

 throughout the Island for his hospitality and many of the 

 members will recollect with pleasure the admirably arranged 

 pic-nic to which he invited the Club three years ago. 



Mr. Guppy's name was universally honoured and respected 

 and his death severed a link which bound the present with the 

 past, and which covered more than half the century during which 

 Trinidad has been under English rule. 



CLUB PAPERS. 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HERPETOLOGICAL FAUNA 

 OF THE ISLAND OF TOBAGO. - 



By Professor Dr. 0. Boettger, Frankfurt-on-the-Main. 



A few days ago Mr. Albrecht Seitz brought me a small collec- 

 J\_ tion of Reptiles and Batrachians from Tobago, which are in 

 many ways deserving of attention. In the first place only a few 

 of the species given were previously known from the Island, 

 which faunistically belongs to one of the least known West 

 Indian Islands, secondly many of the species are conspicuous by 

 corresponding exactly with the Trinidad species, as we know 

 from Mole and Urich's important contributions to the Herpetology 

 of Trinidad. 



The species collected are : 



REPTILIA. 



1. Boa constrictor, (L). Brought over alive. 



2. Drymobius boddaerti, (Sentz,) typ. 



Mole and Urich, Journ., Trinidad F. N. Club, vol. ii, page 85. 



(Coluber). 



22 Maxillary teeth; in one specimen 3 on each side, in the other 2 

 Postoculars. 



Squ. 17 G 2/2 V 188 A 1/1 Sc 120/120 & 1. 

 „ 17 „ 2/2 „ 188 ,, 1/1 „ 128/128 & 1. 



