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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



Donations to these Departments have been made by Messrs. 

 Pbilipp Adams, Outram Bangs, A. N. Cheney, W. F. Clapp, Cap- 

 tain Josiah W. Cook, H. L. Clayton, Dr. G. H. Curry, Professor 

 W. Faxon, Professor H. Garman, A. C. Gould, Dr. L. C. Jones, 

 Gerrit S. Miller, F. H. Rindge (through the Peabody Museum), 

 Dr. George B. Shattuck, and Robert G. Smith. In all cases the 

 receipts were in excellent condition. Many of them were for- 

 warded alive to be specially prepared for exhibition, to take the 

 places of faded or otherwise inferior specimens. Work has been 

 continued on the faunal representations, in which numerous 

 changes have been made. In the storage collections also there 

 has been a good deal of rearrangement, labelling, etc. Inspection 

 discloses a comparatively small amount of damage by evaporation, 

 breakage, or ravages of insects. A lot of live Reptiles was sent 

 to the Zoological Society of London ; others were furnished the 

 students. 



The Kentucky Fishes have been studied by Professor H. Gar- 

 man in connection with a Zoloogical Survey of that State. He 

 has named the unidentified specimens, and supplied from his 

 own collection certain species not before included in our lists. 

 He reports his work much advanced by the opportunities here 

 afforded. 



More time than usual was this year devoted to study of the 

 storage collections. This has resulted in a considerable amount 

 of text and illustration in press on the way to publication, as 

 well as in a large increase in the number of identified species and 

 of new and rare species held by the Museum. 



