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[[underline]]Special work accomplished.[[/underline]]

During June the curator identified and made a detailed report upon the batrachians collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his party during the summer of 1889 on and near the San Francisco Mountain, Arizona.

The greater part of his time, however was occupied with a preliminary report upon the herpetological collections brought home by the naturalists of the U.S. Eclipse Expedition to the West Africa, 1889. The literature on African reptiles and batrachians is widely scattered in various periodicals difficult of access, while