REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF REPTILES AND BATRACHTANS IN 

 THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887, 



By H. C. Yarrow, M. T>., Honorary Curator. 



No special studies or investigations have been made by the curator 

 or his assistant, their time having been taken up in attending to the 

 general routine office work. The study of the Batrachia by Prof. E. D. 

 Cope is elsewhere alluded to. 



Among the accessions received during the year was quite a valuable 

 collection, containing 23 specimens, from Prof. Alfred Duges, of Mexico, 

 comprising the principal forms of reptiles of that country. These speci- 

 mens have not as yet been fully identified. 



A small but interesting collection of Corean serpents, including 7 

 specimens, was received from Dr. N. M. Ferebee, U. S. Navy. 



A collection from Surinam, made by C. J. Herring, was also received. 



A large and valuable collection came from D. Ridgway, Wheatland, 

 Indiana, containing most of the principal reptile forms of that locality. 



A collection from Alaska, by Lieut. Commander H. E. Nichols, U. S. 

 Navy; one from Ensign W. E. S afford, U. S. S. Mohican, collected at 

 Montevideo; one from Charles H. Townsend, collected in the West 

 Indies, and another from the United States of Colombia, South Amer- 

 ica, received from Consul-General Y. O. King, comprise the largest con- 

 tributions made during the year. 



Valuable specimens have also been received from George Chandler, 

 Georgetown, District of Columbia; F. W. Hay ward, Oakley, South 

 Carolina; L. Stone, McCloud River, California; Henry L. Barker, South 

 Carolina; H. W. Turner, Butte County, California; Frank Burns, Dar 

 lington, South Carolina ; Capt. E. S. Stone, coast of Nicaragua ; Dr. 

 J. R. Mathers, Upshur County, West Virginia ; J. H. Kuehling, Vir- 

 ginia; H. J. Shaw, New Berlin, New Jersey; Dr. George H. Mitchell, 

 Arizona; Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, Fort Wingate, New 

 Mexico; Henry L. Barker, South Carolina; Dr. George W. Nelson, 

 Panama; A. C. Peale, Montana ; Dr. H. J. Bigelow, Massachusetts ; U. 

 S. Fish Commission; E. F. Hill, Texas; Otto Lugger, British Guiana; 

 E. P. Alexander, Cuba; R. Ellsworth Call, Dent County, Missouri ; W. 

 H. Phillips (through Dr. H. C. Yarrow), Trinidad ; L. W. Green, Shasta 

 County, California; Dr. T. H. Beau, U. S. National Museum; S. D. 



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