UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 15, No. 4, pp. 183-204 October 26, 1962 Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN AND BARBARA BERG UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1962 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr. ~Volume 15, No. 4, pp. 183-204 Published October 26, 1962~ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1962 29-4227 Type Specimens of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN AND BARBARA BERG In recent years various museums have issued lists of the type specimens in their collections. These lists are valuable to systematists by providing these workers with information that otherwise sometimes is difficult to obtain. Although by comparison with the large museums in the eastern part of the United States, such as the American Museum of Natural History, the United States National Museum, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, the herpetological collections in the Museum of Natural History at The University of Kansas are relatively small (70,000 specimens), a large number of types are contained in the collection. The largest number of types are of species described from Costa Rica by Edward H. Taylor between 1949 and 1958. Beginning in 1932 and continuing until World War II, Taylor described many species from México; types of these species were contained in the Edward H. Taylor--Hobart M. Smith collection. Inquiries from herpetologists reveal that many workers suppose that the EHT-HMS collection is in the Museum of Natural History. Such is not the case, for the EHT-HMS collection has been divided between the Chicago Natural History Museum and the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History.