MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19 



REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 



By Thomas Barbour. 



The year has been singularly fortunate in that decidedly more 

 than the usual amount of material has been received. 



Dr. G. M. Allen has card catalogued all of the Salientia, so that 

 now all of the study material is so indexed, except the Chelonia 

 and some of the material in the tanks. 



Mr. E. R. Dunn returned from Costa Rica with a rich collec- 

 tion, and after a year spent in completing his Revision of the 

 free tongued salamanders, a thesis for the Doctorate of Philos- 

 ophy, he sailed in June for Vera Cruz for field-work in southern 

 Mexico. 



I spent most of the mid winter in Florida, principally collecting 

 vertebrate fossils, with rather mediocre success. 



The W. S. Blatchley collection was added to the study series 

 during the year; other material was received by purchase from 

 Yunnan, the Huachuca Mountains, Texas, and East Africa. Col. 

 J. E. Thayer presented a collection from Las Cruces, New Mexico, 

 while Prof. H. H. Wilder presented a valuable Chinese urodele. 



Prof. Harrison H. Smith has collected a large and well-preserved 

 group of specimens from several districts in Sarawak previously 

 un visited by him. Brothers Niceforo Maria and Apolinar Maria 

 of Medellin and Bogota have aided us in securing valuable Colom- 

 bian collections. 



Exchanges were completed with the following institutions: — 

 Transvaal Museum, Queensland Museum, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 

 of Bello Horizonte, Minas Geraes, Brazil, British Museum, Leyden 

 Museum, and various American institutions. 



The material loaned Miss M. C. Dickerson many years ago has 

 been returned. 



During the year, we were favoured by welcome visitors to an 

 exceptional degree; Dr. Ruthven, Dr. Van Denburgh, Mr. Blan- 

 *chard, and Mr. Noble were among those who came to examine 

 the collection. 



