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innmmals and (;lieloiiiaris, were published iu 1878-9, under the title of 

 " Aiiatoniiciil and Zoological Researches, comprising an Account of the 

 Zoological liesults of two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 

 1875, rind a ]Monogi;ij)!i of the two Cetacean Genera, Plaianista and 

 Orcella." Tlie work appeared in two quni to volumes, one consisting of 

 plates. \)\-. Andeison was the first who succeeded in obtaining speci- 

 jnc'js of the porj)oise (Orcella) iidiabiting the Iirawaddi, and the 

 examination of this previously nndescribed form led him to make a 

 thoiougli aiiatomiciil iuvestigMtiou of an allied species occurring in the 

 Bay of Bengal and in the estuaries of rivers flowing into the bay, and 

 also of the remarkable cetacean, Platanista, inhabiting tlie Ganges, 

 Brahmaputra and Indus. 



'J'hu only other important collecting expedition undertaken by Dr. 

 Anderson during his tenure of the superintendentship of the Indian 

 Museum was to Tennsserim and the Mergui Archipplatro in 1881-2. 

 This journey was chiefly, though by no means exclusively, undertaken 

 for the collection uF m;irine animals, and the descriptions of the results, 

 to whicii several naturalists contributed, were published first in the 

 Juurual of the Linnean Society, and subsequently as a separate 

 reprir.t iu two volumes, under the title of " Contributions to the Fauna 

 of Mergui nnd its Archipelago." This appeared in 1889. Dr. Anderson's 

 share was the description of the Vertebrata and an account of the 

 iSelungs — a curious tribe iidiabiting some of the islands; but in con- 

 nection with his visit to Mergui, find as part of a general description 

 of the fauna which he had at first jiroposed to publish, he prepared an 

 account of the history of Tenasseiim, formerly belonging to Sinm. 

 This historical resume, whicli deals especially with British commercial 

 and political intercourse with Siamese nnd Burmese ports, was com- 

 piled mainly from tlie manuscript records of tlie East India Company, 

 pi'eser^ed in the library of the India Office, and was publislied in 1889 

 in a sepmate volume, entitled "English Intercourse with Siam." The 

 book forms a well-written and interesting chapter of the history of- 

 British progress in Southern Asia. 



Besides the works ali'eady mentioned and many papers, descriptive 

 of mammalia and reptiles, which were published in the Journnl of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal and in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London, Dr. Anderson wrote two catalogues on very different 

 subjects for the museum under his charge in Calcutta. Of these, one 

 was the first, part of the " Catalogue of Mammals," published in 1881, 

 the other the " Cataloo-ue and Handbook of the Archa3ologic.il Col- 

 lection'' whicli ap[)eared in 1883. 



Dr. Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879, 



