FISHES, REPTILES, AND BATRACHIANS 
very satisfactory results. The present exhibition series of fishes 
comprises 125 casts, models, and mounted skins, together with about 
the same number of colored plates of the various families. To the 
New York Aquarium the Department is indebted for very many 
specimens, also to the United States Fish Commission. From the 
latter, twenty specimens— types and cotypes of new genera and 
species of fish from the Philippines— were received in 1903, and in 1904 
a collection of 200 Hawaiian fish, besides various smaller collections 
received from time to time. 
The exhibition series of reptiles numbers in specimens and groups : Batrachians 
of turtles, 54; batrachians, 28; lizards and snakes, 62. About 150 ^^^p^n^^ 
specimens have been received from the Zoological Society, and over 
fifty from the Department of Parks. 
Four hundred and sixty batrachians, representing every species 
of the United States but one, were presented in 1905 by Miss 
Mary C. Dickerson. In 1907 eighty- two exotic lizards from various 
localities were given by Mr. A. Hermann; and thirty-eight reptiles and 
batrachians from Brazil were presented by Mr. Morris K. Jesup. 
The expeditions sent out by other departments of the Museum 
have added many specimens to the study collections from Mexico, 
Porto Rico, Alaska, Patagonia, Fayum Desert (Egypt), and Siberia. 
In 1906 an expedition sent to New Mexico and Arizona for reptiles 
returned with 1,000 specimens. Another trip to Colorado in 1908 
yielded fifty-one specimens. 
A new Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology was estab- 
lished in July, 1909, and Dr. Bashford Dean appointed its Curator. 
CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHES, 
REPTILES, AND BATRACHIANS 
GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 
Cleveland H. Dodge, Alessandro Fabbri, 
Ernesto Fabbri. 
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