INTRODUCTION 
Although his last scientific publication in a herpetological 
journal appeared more than 25 years ago, the name of Wilfred T. 
Neill will be familiar to students of amphibians and reptiles. 
Over a span of twenty-six years (1940-1966), Neill was a 
voluminous contributor to the major herpetological journals 
(Copeia, Herpetologica) , to many regional journals, and to his 
"own" Publications of the Research Division of Ross Allen's 
Reptile Institute. Moreover, Neill published many works in 
anthropology, mainly dealing with the native Indians of 
southeastern United States. In addition to this flood of 
scholarly writing, which included several books, Neill wrote 
hundreds of nature notes for a wide variety of popular outlets 
including the magazine Florida Wildlife and many newspapers. 
This massive publication record has never been completely 
chronicled. The authors of this bibliography independently started 
compiling bibliographies of Neill's writings. When we discovered 
our mutual interest we pooled our respective lists and learned to 
our surprise that Neill was more prolific than any of us 
suspected. As a result, we decided to prepare a complete 
bibliography, not just a herpetological bibliography. In an 
earlier list prepared by Neill he included abstracts of his works 
from Biological Abstracts; these are not included. Also we have 
not included the various reprintings of booklets for Ross Allen's 
Reptile Institute, unless they were revised editions. 
Neill wrote a weekly column for the 38th Bomb Group Newspaper, 
5th Air Force called "Know Your Guinea" in 1943-1944 and "Around 
the Philippines" in 1945, while he was in military service. In 
1950, 1951, and 1952, he supplied weekly drawings with captions 
called "Creatures in the Wild", which according to him ran in 120 
Florida newspapers. Some articles included in "Creatures in the 
Wild" are articles on the diamondback rattlesnake, coral snake, 
cottonmouth, canebrake rattlesnake, copperhead, pigmy rattlesnake, 
alligators, American crocodile, wildcat, armadillo, blind lizard, 
Florida panther, black widow spider, ivory billed woodpecker, 
jaguarundi, king snake, alligator snapping turtle, Audubon's 
caracara, soft-shelled turtle, saltwater snakes, Key deer, Florida 
manatee, coachwhip, black snake, garter snake, Everglades 
ratsnake, red ratsnake, boa constrictor, woodchuck, tegu lizard, 
Allen secures rare specimens, Allen milks deadly bushmaster, 
raccoon, fox squirrel, toucan, bats, horned toads, jerboa 
marsupial, porcupine, tiger salamander, and horned owl. Possibly 
Neill got his artistic talent from his uncle, John R. Neill, a 
famous illustrator of books and magazines from the first half of 
this century, who is probably best known for having illustrated 35 
of the Oz books beginning with the second in 1904. 
