MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



Various additions to these collections have been received from 

 the " Balestier Collection," fr oni Dr. G. L. Allen, John T. Arun- 

 del, Esq., Mr. Walter Deane, Dr. J. W. Folsom, Prof. H. Garman, 

 B. Grover, Esq., Mr. A. H. Higginson, Dr. Freeland Howe, Regi- 

 nald Heber Howe, Esq., Mr. John Means, Dr. E. Montanus, Dr. 

 G. H. Parker, Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, and from others. All 

 of the duplicate material sent out has been in aid of students in 

 special lines of investigation. The number of requests for assist- 

 ance in regard to matters pertaining to Herpetology and Ichthyol- 

 ogy shows a considerable increase. Aside from a small amount of 

 evaporation and the ordinar}' amounts of bleachiug and discolora- 

 tion among the alcoholic specimens, little change is to be noticed 

 in either the storage or the exhibition rooms. Identification of 

 various collections recently acquired, improvements and changes 

 in the exhibition series, some experimentation in connection with 

 new preservatives, and care of the material in general have taken 

 some time, but much the greater portion has been devoted to 

 continuation of the deep sea researches under way last year. 



Two publications relating to these departments were made in 

 the Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, l< Concern- 

 ing a Species of Lizard from Clipperton Island," and " A Species 

 of Goby from the Shores of Clipperton Island." 



