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previously issued by this office. However, a recent and undoubtedly 

 more acceptable and proper series of scientific names of Turtles, 

 lias recently been published in the proceedings of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences, by Dr. Arthur E. Brown, Director of the Phil- 

 adelphia Zoological Garden. If it were not for our established plan 

 to adopt Jordan's Manual as the authority on Vertebrates for our 

 classification of names and Analytic Keys (because this is a book 

 to be found, in practically all zoological laboratories and libraries), 

 we should here use the names given by Dr. Brown, but in order to 

 bring these into general use for students, we publish them in brack- 

 ets, after each of the synonymous names which Dr. Brown regards 

 as needing to be changed. 



We offer this Bulletin as a First or Preliminary Report on the 

 Turtles of Pennsylvania, with the hope that it will aid in dissem- 

 inating some knowledge upon this greatly neglected subject and in 

 creating an interest that may lead to closer observations and fur- 

 ther studies and collections, which may be the basis of a second and 

 more extensive, useful and accurate Report on the same topic. Notes 

 and specimens are earnestly solicited by the Economic Zoologist. 

 Even slight observations upon such topics should be recorded in 

 writing and sent to the office of the Economic Zoologist at Harris- 

 burg, Pa. • Specimens are greatly desired, particularly of those 

 species which are indicated as being at present regar(3ed as rare in 

 this State. It is preferred that all specimens be killed as soon as 

 collected, in order that the natural food may remain in the stomach 

 and dissections may show something concerning their feeding habits. 

 They can easily be killed by putting them into tightly closed vessels 

 with cotton weV saturated with chloroform and let them remain 

 until entirely dead, or where that is impossible, the head of the 

 Turtle can be drawn from the body and cut off at once. Both head 

 and body should then be shipped by express to our office, at our 

 expense. Persons who are willing to volunteer their services in 

 making collections, in the different parts of this State, and also 

 in making observations to aid in the preparation of a Second Report, 

 should write to this office for further directions. Such persons will 

 be the first to receive our further publication and otherwise be aided 

 as much as is possible from this office. We hope to have many volun- 

 teers in different parts of this great State. 



The acknowledgment and thanks of the Economic Zoologist are 

 due to the various observers and contributors in different portions of 

 this State and to his assistants and employes in the office, who have 

 been faithful in their efforts to aid in collections, dissections, deter- 

 minations, and otherwise have obtained facts for this Bulletin. Our 

 thanks are also to be expressed to Dp. H. 0. Bnmpus, Director of 

 the American Mnseum of Natural History, of New York City, for the 



