32 ANNUAL KEPOHT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE REPTILES, BATRACHIANS, 

 AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



For these departments there is to be reported as accessions a 

 collection of fishes of the Philippine Islands through the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, comprehensive series of East Indian species of 

 reptiles from the collections of Mr. Thomas Barbour, important 

 representations of insular species of the Pacific from John E. 

 Thayer, Esq., and a number of desiderata for exhibition pur- 

 poses from the New York Zoological Society through Mr. W. T. 

 Hornaday and Mr. R. L. Ditmars. Other lots of varying extent 

 were given by Messrs. Outram Bangs and Thomas Barbour, Dr. H. 

 B. Bigelow, Messrs. W. W. Dodge, and E. N. Fischer, Professor T. 

 G. Lee, Dr. Wm. M. Woodworth, and Selior Don Jose C. Zeledon. 



Purchases of Central American reptiles were made from Mr. 



E. C. Post, of Hawaiian and Bahaman fishes from Mr. Sherman 



F. Denton, and of different species of Plagiostomes for study and 

 for the exhibition rooms. 



There has been a comparatively small amount of loss from 

 breakage, leakage, or evaporation. 



Besides the routine work, preparations for publication have 

 been steadily continued. 



