BHISLORICAL: 
Two lists of the Batrachia and Reptilia of Ohio have been 
thus far published. The first was issued in 1838, by Dr. Jared 
Potter Kirtland (’38), then at the Medical College of Ohio, in 
Cincinnati. The list embraced a part of the Report of the Zoology 
of Ohio, arranged by Kirtland and published in the First Annual 
Report of the Geological Survey of the State of Ohio. The list 
embraces twenty-seven (27) Reptiles and twenty-one (21) Batra- 
chians, and brief notes on distribution are added for many of the 
species. Kirtland collected over a large area and personally 
examined several of the more important collections in the Eastern 
States. From such sources he drew the material for his list. 
The second list, the only available one at the present time, 
was prepared by Dr. W. H. Smith (’82), a resident of Michigan. 
The work was based on collections and notes furnished by several 
institutions in Ohio and by some workers in general zoology. 
Many of the species were included merely because they had been 
found in neighboring States and were supposed to occur, likewise, 
in Ohio, ‘The work is useful, however, as a synopsis of the forms 
that probably occur within the State’s limits. 
Aside from these two general lists there are found promis- 
cuously distributed through scientific literature, notes on our 
reptilian and batrachian fauna. Thus E. V. Wilcox (’g91), pub- 
lished a series of observations on the Batrachia of the State in 
the ‘‘ Otterbein Aegis,’’ issued at Westerville, Ohio. The work 
was based on the Experiment Station Collection and on personal 
work in several parts of Ohio. Food-habits, dates and places of 
the occurrence and descriptive remarks are faithfully recorded. 
In several cases of uncertainty in identification, the species were 
referred to Prof. Cope and hence are trustworthy. It is unfor- 
tunate that the list was not published in a medium of wider circu- 
lation. Morse (’o1, May and June) listed the Batrachians and 
Reptiles in the Zoological museum of the Ohio State University, 
which is almost complete for Ohio. 
Such are the works exclusively devoted to the State of Ohio. 
Lists of species in neighboring States have been published which 
