CATALOGUE OF COLUBRINE SNAKES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Publication No. 709.

(1858) 1971 facsimile edn. Ppxvi,281. Blue boards.

3,100 specimens arranged systematically, with full catalgoue information and descriptions. "The object of this Catalogue is to give a description of all the species of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum, with an indication of their history and origin, and an account of the species, to be found in other collections, which are dsiderata to the National Museum." "Dr. Guenther observes, ...'The chief object of every branch of Zoology I consider to be the discerning of species, and I object to the tendency of those zoologists who establish a new species for almost every individual, and so destroy the entire basis of our science. In comprising sometimes many varieties under one species, I have no fear of going too far, as I think it preferable to characterize as a variety a form, which may afterwards prove a real species, rather than overburden science with nominal species.'" So, a Lumper, not a Splitter.