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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



The work in these departments lias included fitting up exhibits 

 for the Pacific and the Asiatic rooms, and rearrangement of the 

 North American and the Australian specimens, beside the usual 

 routine work, identifications, and studies. Better representatives 

 have replaced a considerable number of those formerly on the 

 shelves, and many duplicates have been entirely withdrawn from 

 the collections. Several tortoises and a large alligator were 

 mounted for the North American room. Among the outgoing 

 material was that furnished students in the laboratories, and a 

 couple of series of Reptiles and Batrachians sent to Dr. Hurter. 



Donations were received from Mr. Philipp Adams, Dr. Harrison 

 Allen, A. N. Cheney, Esq., Mr. Chick, William Clapp, Hon. J. G. 

 A. Creighton, Prof. W. Faxon, J. B. Greenough, Esq., Mr. Thomas 

 A. Hillery, Dr. L. C. Jones, W. H. Jones, Esq., Mrs. J. M. May- 

 nard, Colonel McDonald, U. S. Fish Commissioner, Gerrit S. 

 Miller, Esq., Mr. Wm. B. Richardson, Mr. W. W. Rockwell, Robt. 

 Gaston Smith, Esq., Mr. Rollo W. Snell, Miss Elizabeth Taylor, 

 Bradford Torrey, Esq., and Mr. N. Vickary. Many of the acces- 

 sions are of rare and desirable species. Especially valuable are the 

 live specimens sent by Dr. Hurter ; kept living for a time, they 

 afforded the means of determining much relating to the life his-, 

 tories of their species. 



A particular study of the Acipenseroids was made by Mr. Nic- 

 olas Borodine, sent out by the Russian government. 



The amount of loss from evaporation, leakage, or breakage is 

 very small. 



The list of publications is made up of the following, in addition 

 to unsigned reviews and other articles. 



In "Science": — 



" On Chetydra serpentina." 



" On the Growth of the Rattle of Crotalidse." 



