Hyla andersoni in South Carolina 
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To speculate concerning the origin of the specimen of Hyla ander- 
soni, it might have been brought in by: 1) a more or less local student or 
other person; 2) a student coming from a more distant home at the begin- 
ning of a term; 3) a travelling acquaintance passing through Anderson; or 
4) a parent or alumna returning to the school at commencement time or 
at the end of a term. My present guess is that the frog was collected some 
distance from Anderson and brought over many miles of rough roads 
stuffed in a small container of “spirit”. It was then simply dropped into 
the keg of specimens being accumulated by Paine and Daniel. Had this 
particular frog been brought in alive, it seems logical that these women 
would have remembered it. 
The Anderson school’s records were burned during a military raid in 
1865. However, copies of some of the pertinent circulars or catalogs are 
in the Furman University Special Collections or in the University of 
South Carolina’s South Caroliniana Library at Columbia. 
I have examined the lists of students for appropriate years, especially 
1848 and early 1849, in an attempt to guess who might have obtained the 
frog in question. Most of the students (63% to 72%) were from Anderson 
district, several from Abbeville district. Mary and Elizabeth Morris, Julia 
Horsey, and Cassandra Hewitt made the trip in from Charleston. Mary 
S. Coleman and Harriet Hibler were from Edgefield district. Elizabeth 
and Eugenia Higgins lived on the hill above the Saluda River (Newberry 
side) where the Saluda-Newberry highway (SC 121) now crosses. Their 
father ran the ferry there. Augusta G. Thompson and Jerusha Prince 
were respectively from Chickasaw and Tippah counties, Mississippi. Is 
there any chance of the frog’s being present in that northeastern portion 
of that state? In our present state of ignorance, all of the above in- 
dividuals would have to be considered possibilities. There was no student 
from Columbia (or north of there) until Fannie Caldwell in 1851. 
Any good South Carolina map of the time (I had Mitchell’s 1850 
one) should show that Anderson district corresponded to present Ander- 
son County, but Abbeville district included present Abbeville and much 
of Greenwood and McCormick counties. Edgefield district included pre- 
sent Edgefield and Saluda, plus small portions of Greenwood, McCor- 
mick and Aiken counties. There was no Aiken County in 1850. 
One possibility is so remote that even to bring it up is questionable: 
Could the specimen of H. andersoni have been collected by Dr. John P. 
Barratt and become mixed with the Paine-Daniel specimens at the 
Smithsonian? Barratt’s specimens were sent to Washington from Ab- 
beville district. He lived a few miles south of the present town of 
Greenwood. According to information provided by E. D. Herd, Jr., 
about 1845 Barratt travelled slowly through parts of the sandhills strip 
and deeper into the lower Coastal Plain with M. Tuomey, state geologist. 
The trip was primarily a geologic one, but a person of Barratt’s biological 
interests would have been ever alert for unusual specimens. 
