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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES. 
By SAMUEL GARMAN. 
THE greatest additions to the collections of Reptiles and Fishes 
have been of Fossils. During a four months’ expedition to the 
Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic formations of the West, the 
amount of material secured was quite large, while the discoveries 
made will occupy the parties left in the field for a year or more. 
From the Tertiary the receipts are principally mammalian remains, 
found under circumstances which afforded additional evidence of 
similarity in the modes of forming bone basins in the Pliocene, 
and bone licks or pockets in the Quaternary. The fishes from 
the Tertiary are in the main Clupeoids and Percoids; the reptiles, 
Turtles and Saurians. A much greater variety of fishes was 
obtained in the Cretaceous. Prominent among them are such 
genera as have been named Portheus, Ichthyodectes, Erisichthe, 
and various Berycide. Sauria, such as have been described under 
the names of Lzodon, Platecarpus, Clidastes, etc., were plentiful. 
Six or seven species of Selachia, and various Pterodactyls and 
Birds, are also represented. From the Jurassic we have a num- 
ber of the Dinosaurian Sauropoda, Ornithopoda, Stegosauria, and 
the like,—the most bulky and by far the heaviest of the acces- 
sions. On arrival, the majority of the fossils were found to be in 
good condition. 
The largest single addition of recent species was a lot of 
thirty-five, purchased from the Linnea Naturhistorisches Institut. 
Donations have been received from the Bergen Museum, Dr. 
C. O. Whitman, W. S. Bryant, J. A. Jeffries, N. Vickary, Dr. G. 
H. Manigault, Dr. B. G. Wilder, J. Ritchie, Jr., and George R. 
Allaman. Dr. Whitman presented some rare species from Japan. 
Professor Goode and Dr. Bean have identified and returned the 
fishes of the latest ‘“ Blake”? Expeditions. A couple of shipments 
