HISTORICAL. 



, Two lists of the Batrachia and Reptilia of Ohio have bee 

 thus far published. The first was issued in 1838, by Dr. Jare 

 Potter Kirtlafid ('38), then at the Medical College of Ohio, : 

 Cincinnati. The list embraced a part of the Report of the Zoplog 

 of Ohio, arranged by Kirtland and puTslished in the First Annu 

 Report of the Geological Survey of the State of Ohio. The li 

 embraces twenty-seven (27) Reptiles and twenty-one (21) Batn 

 chians, and brief notes on distribution are added for many of tl 

 species. Kirtland collected over a large area and personal] 

 examined several of the more important collections in the Eastei 

 States. From such sources he drew the material for his list. 



The second list, the only available one at the present tim^ 

 was prepared by Dr. W. H. Smith ('82), a resident of Michigai 

 The work was based on collections and notes furnished by seven 

 institutions in Ohio and by some workers in general zoolog; 

 Many of the species were included merely because they had bee 

 found in neighboring States and were supposed to occur, likewisi 

 in Ohio. The work is useful, however, as a synopsis of the forn 

 that probably occur within the State's limits. 



Aside from these two general lists there are fotind promi 

 "cuously distributed through scientific literature, notes on ot 

 reptilian and batrachian fauna. Thus E. V. Wilcox ('91)., pul 

 Jished a series of observations on the Batrachia of the State i 

 the " Otterbein Aegis," issued at Westerville, Ohio. The wor 

 was based on the Experiment Station Collection and on person; 

 work in'several parts of Ohio. Food-habits, dates and places ( 

 the occurrence and descriptive remarks are faithfully recordet 

 In several cases of uncertainty in identification, the species^ wei 

 referred to Prof. Cope and hence are trustworthy. It is unfo 

 tunate that the list was not published in a medium of wider circi 

 lation. Morse ('01, May and June) listed the Batrachians an 

 Reptiles in the Zoological museum of the Ohio State University 

 which is almost complete for Ohio. 



Such are the works exclusively devoted to the State of Ohi( 

 Lists of species in neighboring States have been published whic 



