Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species-the first catalogue of its kind-covers all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012, comprising 3,509 living and 274 extinct species allocated to 539 living and 112 extinct genera. Also included are 54 genera and 302 species that are dubious or invalid, resulting in reco

Excerpt from Herpetological Type-Specimens in the University of Illinois, Museum of Natural History, 1964 The Museum of Natural History of the University of Illinois has in its herpetological collection a relatively large number of type specimens, most of which are Mexican in geographic origin. Knowl edge oi the present location of holotype specimens is a worker's necessity, and for this reason as' well as to record the entire present content of the Museum's herpetological type-collection, this report has been prepared, in conformance with the behest of the 1961 Code of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (art. 72d4). In general, the form adopted is that of Peters' similar report (1952, Occ. Papers Mus. Univ. Mich, no. 539) on the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's herpetological type-collection. Since most of the specimens formerly bore numbers in other institutional or private collections, however, it has been regarded as essential to cite these numbers; they follow parenthetically immediately after the uimn H number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.