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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia S. Caudata and Batrachia Apoda: In the Collection of the British Museum The present volume completes the Second Edition of the Catalogue of Batrachians, and if compared with the first edition (prepared by my predecessor nearly thirty years ago) wi Uafford another proof that the collection in the British Museum has held pace with the progress made by science in the intervening period. like the first volume of this edition, which was published at the beginning of this year, it has been prepared by Mr. Gr. A. Boulenger, who, in the meantime, has entered the permanent service of the Trustees. Our knowledge of the various forms of Tailed and Limbless Batrachians may be considered to be as complete as that of any other order of the Animal Kingdom: possibly Central Asia may yield a certain number of additional species of Newts, and Tropical Africa some hitherto unknown CoeciUas; but we can hardly anticipate that such new discoveries will be fundamentally distinct from the forms with which we are acquainted at present, or lead to modifications of the general results embodied in the summary of the geographical distribution of the entire class of Batrachians which accompanies this volume. 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.