TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 



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813 2773 

 Summary: Orders, 26; Species, 813; Specimens, 2,773. 



DEPARTMENT OF REPTILES. 

 Raymond L. Ditmars, Curator; Chas. E. Snyder, Head Keeper. 



It was only by persistent attention to sources in the United 

 States and tropical America that the reptile collection for the 

 past year was maintained at the uniformly high standard that 

 was set at the opening of the Park sixteen years ago. It means 

 much to explain that not one reptile or amphibian of European, 

 Asiatic, Malayan, African or Australian origin was added to 

 the collection during the past year. The war has rendered it 

 absolutely impossible to obtain Old World specimens. 



However, the census of the collection of reptiles and am- 

 phibians for the past year compares very favorably with the 

 census of the close of 1914. One reason for this has been the 

 success of the Reptile House staff in maintaining the collection. 



