FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
53 
Singapore, and an anaconda sixteen feet in length, from Dem- 
erara. 
During the summer of 1900, Curator Ditmars and Keeper 
Charles Snyder spent their vacation in the swamps of South Caro- 
lina, as guests of the Pinelands Club, where they made an excep- 
tionally fine collection of the showy water-snakes which there 
abound. A selection from this series, with the addition of two 
diamond-back rattlesnakes, was sent to the London Zoological 
Society in exchange for African puff adders. 
On January I, 1901, the Reptile House contained the following 
specimens : 
Order. 
Crocodilia 
Chelonia 
Lacertilia 
Ophidia 
Batrachia 
Received by gift 
Purchased 
Collected 
Born 
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BO. 8 0 619 6.8 O00! 6. S96 9) ao 
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Species. Specimens. 
2 30 
30 38 
15 57 
45 3409 
92 465 
18 98 
110 663 
Pretest eo 261 specimens. 
ond eee 103 < 
ey ete 422 Hf 
bee 89 5 
Net gain during year, 18 species, 218 specimens. 
SUMMARY OF LIVE ANIMALS ON HAND ON JANUARY I, IQOTI: 
Pal sia ea ge fa, seeks ore PE 
@) 8 POS Ora ee Bee 6 Sy 6) w, 16) 0, (6) (2 
Species. Specimens. 
106 405 
104 425 
110 663 
320 1493 
Received by gift during the year, 480 specimens. 
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purchase 
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION. 
Boma the Packs . 42702..: 
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728 “ce 
166 ‘ 
H. R. Mitchell, Chief Clerk. 
During the past year, this department has transacted a great 
amount of business in a very satisfactory manner. 
The semi- 
