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Survey of Ohio. This annotated list mentions most of the species found in 

 Indiana. 



In the American Naturalist for 1885, Mr. Butler published a paper on 

 Hibernation of the lower Vertebrates in which there are recorded interesting 

 observations on certain species of tiu-tles and frogs. To the Journal of 

 the Cincinnati Society of Natural History Mr. Butler furnished several 

 contributions to Indiana herpetology. 



1886, Edward Hughes published in the Bulletin of the Brookville Society 

 of Natural History a preliminary list of the reptiles and batrachians of Frank- 

 lin County. This list is annotated and records 40 species. 



In 1887, Dr. O. P. Hay (Jefferson Co., Ind., May 22. 1846 ) publi-shed 



a preliminary catalogue of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Indiana; and in 

 1893 appeared Hay's "Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana," a very useful 

 publication of more than 200 pages in Avhich are given full descriptions of 

 all the species then known from this state. 



Professor Blatchley has observed, collected and studied the reptiles 

 and batrachians of Indiana for many years, and has contributed a number 

 of faunal lists and other important papers, among which may l)e mentioned 

 the following: Notes on the l>atrachians and reptiles of Vigo County, Ind., 

 (1891); How plants and animals spend the winter (1897); Indiana caves and 

 their fauna (1896); Notes on the batrachians and reptiles of Vigo County, 

 Ind. (1900); and On a small collection of batrachians and reptiles, with des- 

 criptions of two new species (1900). 



As a part of their survey of Lake Maxinkuckee Evermann and Clark gave 

 attention to the reptiles and batrachians of that region, and in the Proceedings 

 of this Academy for 1914 they pu])lished an annotated list of the snakes. 

 The number of species recorded bj' them as occurring in the vicinity of Lake 

 Maxinkuckee is 10. They have ready for publication similar annotated lists 

 of the turtles and batrachians, 9 species of the former and 18 of the latter. 



CONTHOLOGY 



As already stated in the introduction to this paper, the study of the 

 molluscous fauna of Indiana began with Thomas Say at New Harmony in 

 182o to 1834. But even earlier than Thomas Say was that versatile naturalist, 

 Constantine Samuel Rafinesquc, who visited New Harmony in 1818, and who 

 began describing the fishes and mollusks of the Ohio the same year. His 

 first paper dealing in part with the shells of Indiana appeared in 1818 and 

 was entitled "Discoveries in natural history in the Western States." This 

 was followed in rapid succession in 1818 to 1820, by a half dozen other papers 

 each dealing more or less with the mollusks of Indiana. In these various 

 papers several new species are described. 



In M'Murtie's Sketches of Louisville and its Environs, etc., first edition, 

 1819, is a list of the moUusca of the vicinity of Louisville and the Falls of 



