86 Report of the President 



The card catalogue of species has been completed for the 

 lizards and snakes, but the collection of amphibians, number- 

 ing 13,400 specimens, still remains to be thus recorded, though 

 duly entered in the current catalogue. There still remain to 

 be transferred to the new books the data for the 18,108 cata- 

 logued reptiles in the Museum. 



The Bull Frog Group has been repaired, and several of the 



other groups renovated. A gigantic specimen of the Alligator 



Snapper has been prepared and very soon will 

 Exhibition be installed in one of the floor cases< The entire 



synoptic series has been rearranged and temporary labels writ- 

 ten for all the specimens. A number of casts were made for 

 use in exchanges with other institutions. 



The work of Mr. C. L. Camp on the "Myology and Oste- 

 ology of the Lacertilia" was continued throughout the year and 

 nearly brought to completion. It will be illus- 

 p e JLJ? rc i and trated by forty-eight plates of Mr. Camp's more 

 important dissections. 



The work of Mr. K. P. Schmidt was unfortunately brought 

 to an early conclusion in July, when he left the Museum on an 

 extended leave of absence. The first report on the results of 

 his work in Porto Rico appeared in September (Annals of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences, XXVIII, pp. 167-200, figs. 

 1-9). This paper is but an abstract of a more extensive account 

 which Mr. Schmidt has in hand. Three brief papers by Mr. 

 Schmidt (Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York, 

 XXXVIII, pp. 1-8) on West Indian herpetology have appeared, 

 giving descriptions of several important new species. Two other 

 short papers were published in Copeia (No. 82, pp. 41-42; No. 

 86, pp. 84-85). These latter papers deal with the distribution 

 of Bufo fowleri and the common name of Amphiuma, respec- 

 tively. Another paper by Mr. Schmidt, entitled "Notes on the 

 Herpetology of Santo Domingo/' is in press and will be pub- 

 lished soon in the Bulletin. 



The Assistant Curator published during the year a paper on 

 some new species of frogs from Colombia (Bulletin, XLII, 

 pp. 441-446), including one very interesting new genus. Two 





