28 ANXUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORTS ON THE REPTILES, BATRACHIANS, AND 



FISHES. 



By Samuel G arm an. 



As heretofore growth in these departments has been steady, and 

 as usual it has been effected by means of donations, exchanges, 

 and purchases. The purchases have secured especially desirable 

 specimens; the most important being a series of fishes prepared 

 for exhibition by Mr. S. F. Denton. Among the best of the ex- 

 changes was one effected with Dr. N. Annandale; this consists of 

 a series of Indian reptiles including a hundred and ten species, 

 almost all of them desiderata. The donations range over numer- 

 ous and widely separated localities and do not contain so many 

 forms that are duplicates as might have been expected. They 

 were contributed by the New York Zoological Society, Dr. W. T. 

 Hornaday, Director, and by Messrs. Thomas Barbour, Henry B. 

 Bigelow, F. C, Bowditch, C. A. Clark, H. L. Clark, F. T. Colby, 

 W. W. Dodge, P. H. Goldsmith, R. H. Howe, Jr., E. L. Moseley, 

 Wirt Robinson, O. H. Tellalian and John E. Thayer. 



Collections sent in for determination were forwarded to the 

 senders. Some of those sent out for study have been returned to 

 the Museum. 



A large series of Characinidae collected during the Thayer Bra- 

 zilian Expedition have been sent to Prof. C. H. Eigenmann for 

 study. 



Publications. August 1, 1907-July 31, 1908. 



New Plagiostomia and Chismopnea. Bull. M. C. Z., February, 1908, 



vol. 51, p. 249-256. 

 Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern 



Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. 



Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," from October, 1904, 



to March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N. 



commanding. XII. The Reptiles of Easter Island. BulL 



M. C. Z., June, 1908, vol. 52, p. 1-14, 1 pi. 



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