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museum drawers.

The new accessions have not been distributed between the "reserve series" and the "general series" for the reason that such a division of the material can only be done when the whole collection has been worked up. The status of the North American herpetology at the present date is so unsettled that in most cases it is impossible to tell whether a specimen is a duplicate, or whether it may not be of extreme importance when the matter is going to be thoroughly investigated. It seems probable that in a near future new views and new methods