REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS IN 

 THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 

 1886. 



By H. 0. Yarrow, U. 8. Army, Honorary Curator. 



The most important additions to the Maseum in this department for 

 the year have been a collection from Olney, 111., collected by John and 

 Charles Walker, containing 33 specimens;* a collection from Nicaragua, 

 from Dr. J. F. Bransford, U. S. Navy, containing 191 specimens, which 

 were sent to Prof. E. D. Cope, November 2, 1885; a collection of 471 

 specimens from E. Wilkinson, Chihuahua, Mexico, also sent to Professor 

 Cope, November 2, 1885 : a large collection from the Imperial Academy 

 of Science, St. Petersburg, Eussia, containing 118 specimens; from Dr. 

 B. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, several good collections from Fort Win- 

 gate, N. Mex., consisting mostly of living specimens of Amblystoma.* 

 Collections have also been received from Col. M. McDonald,* Wythe, 

 ville, Va. ; Dr. B. H. Warren, De Land, Fla. ; Henry Hemphill, Key 

 West, Fla.; Charles Ruby, southern Kansas; Prof. Alfred Duges, 

 Guanajuato, Mexico; Miss Dottie Blackburn,* Colorado; John Pollock,* 

 Symmes, Ohio; Drt T. H. Streets, U. S. Navy, Alaska; Dr. H. C. 

 Yarrow,* coast of North Carolina; G. H. Bagsdale,* Gainesville, Tex.; 

 Capt. Charles Bendire, IT. S. Army, Fort Custer, Mont. ; Zoological 

 Society of Philadelphia;* several specimens from India; H. W. Hen- 

 shaw,* Massachusetts; Charles H. Townsend, Humboldt County, Cal.; 

 U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross-,* from the Bahamas; Miss 

 Bosa Smith,* San Diego, Cal., and many others. 



The routine work of the Department of Beptiles has been carried on 

 similar to the way described in previous reports, all specimens being 

 carefully attended to and entered in the record books on their arrival. 

 In addition to the general work, over six hundred bottles have been 

 labeled and placed in the cases, in consequence of which the shelves 

 have become very much overcrowded. 



No papers have been published by the curator or his assistant. Prof. 

 E. D. Cope has been employed by the Smithsonian Institution on some 



* For further informatiou, see Accession List, Part V. 



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