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EEPOKT ON THE KEPTILES AND FISHES. 



By Samuel Garman. 



As has been the case in previous years, some time and labor 

 has been given to the alcoholic collections in other departments. 

 The identifications and the changes of alcohol,, specimens, and 

 labels have been continued, as also the process of disposing of 

 the duplicates. In the storage rooms the bulk of the material 

 has been further reduced by the withdrawal of some thirty large 

 sharks, skates, and reptiles. The largest series of duplicates 

 sent to correspondents were those sent to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and to Professor Jordan ; others were shipped to Professor 

 C. S. Dolley, of the University of Pennsylvania, and to the Illi- 

 nois State Laboratory of Natural History, and smaller lots were 

 furnished Doctors M. Guitel, E. L. Mark, George Baur, and 

 R. W. Shufeldt. For the students' use, at various times speci- 

 mens were given out to Dr. Slade and Mr. Parker. Eleven 

 comprehensive lots, special selections, have been prepared and 

 are now ready to forward to their destinations. The space 

 allotted to the Fishes and Reptiles in the faunal exhibit of the 

 Atlantic has been filled. 



By purchase an excellent lot of Reptiles and Batrachians, 

 mainly African and East Indian, was obtained from the Linnaea 

 Naturhistorisches Institut. : 



A fine Series of Mediterranean Fishes was received from the 

 Milan Museum, and this was followed by another, made up of 

 Selachians, gathered by Professor Bellotti in answer to our re- 

 quest. Professor Dolley supplied a number of desiderata from the 

 Bahamas ; these, with a large number of fresh-water fishes from 

 the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, and a number of Reptiles 

 from Mr. N. L. Wilson, complete the list of exchanges. 



We have received gifts of specimens from the following 

 persons : Mrs. C. N. Willard, Miss Ruth Hoppin, Miss Mary 



