USNM Curators Annual Reports - Department of Reptiles: Annual Report, 1896 - 1897

You know that dreadful feeling when you wait too long to start an assignment just before the deadline? Well, the curator of the Department of Reptiles may have had that same feeling in 1897 when filling out the division’s curators' report. Some of the answers are so brief and vague that Smithsonian clerk J.S. Sessford asked for a revision. Help the Archives transcribe the brief summaries that just didn’t cut it. To learn more about this collection, check out the finding aid.