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The second class of objects consisted of sixty-eight species in alcohol, this series being destined to illustrate by typical specimens the families of reptiles and batrachians occurring in the Western Hemisphere. Altogether forty-eight families were shown, several of the larger ones being represented by a series of species to illustrate the extremes of forms included in them ^[[line from the end of "them" to the beginning of "all"]].

All the specimens were carefully mounted upon glass plates in imitation of the natural positions of the animals and displayed in square glass jars, the larger ones in [[Dörflinger]] jars, the smaller in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Benedict plate glass jars.