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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



Much the largest addition to these collections was obtained in 

 exchange from Dr. Fernand Lataste. It was composed of desira- 

 ble representatives of the faunas of Chili and of Algeria, Reptiles, 

 Batrachians, and Fishes. Mr. W. H. Phelps donated the fine 

 collection of Reptiles and Batrachians secured by him in Vene- 

 zuela to these departments, after making a thorough study of it 

 in connection with the Museum's material. The u Great Barrier 

 Reef Expedition " of 1896 supplied an excellent series of Austra- 

 lian desiderata, collected by Messrs. Woodworth, Mayer, and Olive. 

 Outram Bangs, Esq., added quite a number of species to his 

 contributions from Florida. Accessions from various localities 

 have also been received from Professor G. H. Parker, Dr. L. C. 

 Jones, and Messrs. I. T. Jones, Roswell II. Johnson, Herbert W. 

 Taylor, C. M. F. Flagg, and Lawrence Brooks. All receipts were 

 in good condition. 



Few shipments have been made. Besides what was furnished 

 to the students in Zoology, a small lot of fishes went to the Labo- 

 ratory of Indiana University. The material collected by Professor 

 C. C. Nutting on his Expedition to the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida 

 Keys, for the University of Iowa, was made the basis of a report, 

 and was returned to the University. The report as published is 

 entitled " Report on the Fishes collected by the Bahama Expedi- 

 tion of the State University of Iowa, under Professor C. C. Nut- 

 ting, in 1893," and appeared in the Bulletin of the Laboratory of 

 Natural Sciences of the Iowa University, in 1896, and separately 

 as a reprint. 



Aside from the routine demands of the Exhibition series, and of 

 the storage collections, the greater portion of the labor has been 

 devoted to a continuation of the studies in deep-sea ichthyology, 



