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[[double underlined]]Exhibit[[/double underlined]] prepared for the [[double underlined]] World's Columbium Exposition [[/double underlined]]

The exhibit of the department of reptiles and batrachians comprised two classes of objects, viz, (1) groups of casts and mounted specimens, and (2) a series of alcoholic specimens.

Owing to lack of space and time three groups only were exhibited, though work on several more had been planned and partly begun.

The first group consisted of fourteen casts of some of the more typical poisonous snakes occurring within the United States, as for instance, various species of rattlesnakes, the water moccasin , the copperhead, and the Harlequin snake. The snakes were shown coiled or crawling among rocks,