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some were published in the ' Journal' of the Linnean Society, and 

 special interest attaches to that upon the "Cloacal Bladders and 

 Peritoneal Canals in the Chelonia" as being an admirable piece of 

 experimental Avork and one of the first of its kind. At the time 

 of his arrival at Calcutta, the Asiatic Society of Bengal had amassed 

 an enormous collection of archa3ological remains, coins, and biological 

 specimens of all kinds, in overwhelming proportions, and it was to 

 the Museum built for the reception of all but the geological portion 

 of these, that Anderson was by the Government of India appointed 

 first Curator, then Superintendent, as he was Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy to the Medical College of Calcutta. The Museum collec- 

 tions continued to grow apace, owing to a remarkable activity in the 

 systematic investigation of the Indian fauna, at that time proceeding, 

 in which Anderson himself played an important part. Ball, Day, 

 Stoliczka, and others, were all hard at work upon it, and as the 

 result it became necessary to erect the present museum building, 

 which was taken over in 1875. In this Anderson had a chance of 

 reorganization, and he caused to be formed series illustrating the 

 ethnology and craniology of the Indian races and the zoology of 

 the Indian Chelonia, which marked a new departure in museum 

 management. 



Two or three years after his arrival in Calcutta, Dr. Anderson, 

 as medical ofiicer, accompanied an expedition to Upper Burma, and 

 later one to Yunnan. In neither was the full programme carried 

 out, retreat being compulsory in the latter case on account of the 

 murderous action of the Chinese. Important acquisitions were 

 nevertheless obtained ; and in due course Anderson published in con- 

 nection with the expedition a work entitled 'Mandalay to Momein,' 

 and a series of reports on the ' Anatomical and Zoological Pte- 

 searches ' of the expeditions to W. Yunnan, with a monograph on the 

 Cetacean genus Platanista, aud of the OrcelJa of the Irrawaddi, which 

 he was the first to secure. 



In 1881-82 Anderson, still in the service of the Indian Museum, 

 essayed a collecting expedition to Tenasserim and the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago, mainly with a view to obtaining marine animals ; aud the 

 results of this, which appeared in the form of a series of papers 

 by distinguished experts in the 'Journal' of the Linnean Society, 

 were in 1889 collected into two volumes under an appropriate title. 

 Dr. Anderson's share in the work of publication included the accoimt 

 of the Yertebrata, and of the Selungs, a remarkable tribe encountered 

 on the trip, and a historical resume dealing largely with political 

 and commercial topics, published in 1889 under the title 'English 

 Intercourse with Siam.' During the whole of his Indian career 

 Dr. Anderson was a constant contributor to the publications of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, and the author of Museum Catalogues on 

 the Mammalian and the Archceological collections under his charge. 

 He was one of the founders, and for some time secretary, of the 

 Zoological Garden at Calcutta, and he keenly felt the neglect of 

 the Indian Government in its failure to award him a decoration in 

 official recognition of his services. 



On his return to England he early resolved upon the systematic 



