150 Reclamation of Salamanders. 



Art. XIX. Reclamation of Salamanders — in a Letter to the 

 Baron F. Cuvier, from Jacob Green, M. D. Professor of 

 Chemistry in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Corres- 

 ponding Member. 



When on a visit to Paris in July and August, 1828, in conse- 

 quence of an introduction to you from our mutual friend J. G. Chil- 

 dren, Esq. of London, I received that attention and kindness in 

 your hospitable mansion at the Garden of Plants, which I shall 

 ever remember with delight. I mention this circumstance both 

 with a view of expressing my gratitude and with a faint hope of 

 recalling myself to your memory. 



My principal object in this letter is to correct an error which by 

 some inadvertence has crept into the last edition of your " Regne 

 Animal," where you attribute to R.Harlan, M. D. the animals of 

 the genus Salamandra, which were discovered and first described 

 by myself. A full account of them you will find in the first vol- 

 ume of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and in 

 the first number of the contributions of the Maclurean Lyceum. 

 Most of them are also noticed in the Nouveau Dictionaire Hist. 

 Nat. of Paris. I have for a long time paid special attention to these 

 animals, and hope at no distant date to give a monograph of them 

 with figures, as you have suggested in your excellent work. Some 

 of my animals, with my own labels affixed to them, I noticed in 

 the museum attached to your magnificent Garden of Plants— they 

 were probably sent to France by our friend C. A. Lesueur. 



Those species of American Salamanders which are best char- 

 acterized, and about which there can be no doubt, are the fol- 



Salamandra subviolacea. Barton. 



erythronota. Green. 



Punctata. Gmelin. 

 These six are always found in moist situations, and never to my 

 knowledge absolutely in the water. I have described in the works 

 above referred to, two other land Salamanders, under the names 

 of S. tigrina and S. cinerea. The S. cinerea is almost always 



