12 : Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
Collection of Reptiles Made by Mr. C. J. Pierson at Fort 
Smith, Arkansas, with Remarks on Other Eastern Rep- 
tiles.’’ (Wheeling, W. Va., 1899. Published by the 
author.) McLain’s notes are based on specimens pre- 
sented to the museum of the Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 
versity. We must either doubt some of his identifications 
or else believe that some of Pierson’s material was incor- 
rectly labeled as to locality, for it seems hardly possible 
that such species as Clemmys insculptus LeConte, Tes- 
tudo polyphemus Daudin and Thamnophis sackeni Kenn. 
should occur so far out of their natural range. 
We are indebted to Dr. Seth Eugene Meek of Chicago 
for a list of material collected at several stations in Ark- 
ansas. This material is a part of the herpetological col- 
lection of the Field Museum of Natural History. Mr. 
Hurter takes this method of thanking Mr. John R. For- 
dyce, of Little Rock, for assistance rendered him in col- 
lecting material, as well as for other courtesies. 
We did not deem it necessary to append a bibliography 
for the reason that in most of the literature at our dis- 
posal the Arkansas fauna is referred to in only a general 
way and furnishes very little authentic data. 
A careful perusal of Marcy’s ‘‘Report on the Red 
River Expedition’’ resulted in more eliminations than 
additions to our original list. The lists of specimens in 
Cope’s ‘‘Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes of North 
America,’’ furnished us with some data, but much less 
than we had reason to expect, as this work is supposed 
to give a list of all of the specimens of these animals that 
were in the National Collection up to a short time prior 
to the author’s death. | 
Most of the material collected by Hurter is in his 
private collection. The Combs lot is widely scattered, 
but examples of most of the species obtained by him are 
in the Hurter and Baylor University collections. The 
Hot Springs specimens in the National collection, se- 
cured through Messrs. H. H. and C. 8. Brimley, were 
collected by Combs. 
