THE HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE BY DR. 

 HUGH M. SMITH IN SIAM FROM 1923 TO 1929 



By Doris M. Cochran 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Reptiles and Batrachians 



For a number of years the United States National Museum has 

 been the fortunate recipient of rather extensive collections from 

 southeastern Asia. Dr. W. L. Abbott began work in this region 

 while its fauna was still relatively unkno^vn, the remarkable collections 

 made by him in the islands of Malaysia as well as on the mainland 

 itself still yielding valuable material for study purposes. Other 

 collectors have augmented this material, and recognition of the 

 possibilities of the zoologic study of this region has been manifested 

 by various museums. 



Most of Doctor Abbott's reptiles and amphibians were taken in 

 Trong, Peninsular Siam. Our series of specimens from the northern 

 part of Siam was very limited until the time when Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith, formerly Chief of the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington, 

 D. C, went to Bangkok to assume control of the development of 

 fisheries resources for the kingdom of Siam. Since 1923 we have 

 been receiving large and varied shipments of excellently preserved 

 biological specimens from Doctor Smith, from which some new 

 species have already been described. A complete list of the specimens 

 which he has sent to the United States National Museum from 1923 

 through 1929 has been prepared, and it is hoped that new locality 

 records will stimulate further work by various collectors in regions 

 only partly explored at the present time. The letter S preceding a 

 bracketed number indicates the collector's number given to the speci- 

 men by Doctor Smith in the field. Original references are given to 

 species described since 1912, the date of Boulenger's "Fauna of the 

 Malay Peninsula." 



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