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Staff. 



Considerable changes have taken place in the staff of the depart- 

 ment. I have first to record v^^ith deep regret the death of two old 

 and valued servants of the Indian Museum, namely Mr. A. Martin, 

 Head TaxidermivSt and Storekeeper, and Mr. G. A. Paiva, Special Ento- 

 mological Assistant. 



Mr. Martin joined the service of the Trustees as Apprentice Taxi- 

 dermist in 1892. He took part in an expedition to the Andamans 

 in 1896 and was appointed First Assistant Taxidermist in 1898 and 

 Head Taxidermist in 1901. He died on January 5th, 1919. 



Charles A. Paiva was born of a respectable Anglo-Indian family 

 at Purneah in Bihar (then in Bengal) on the 30th May, 1878. He was 

 educated at St. Michael's High School, Kurgi, and at St. Xavier's College, 

 Calcutta, and joined the service of the Trustees of the Indian Museum 

 as Gallery Assistant in July, 1899. In January, 1905, he was appoint- 

 ed Special Entomological Assistant, a post which he held, with several 

 interruptions due to ill-health, until the time of his death. For some 

 years he had been threatened with phthisis, but notwithstanding a 

 serious illness on more than one occasion, he devoted himself with, enthu- 

 siasm to his work on the insects and especially to the study of the Indian 

 Hemiptera or Rhynchota, for which Mr. AV.L. Distant' s volumes in 

 the Fauna of British India afforded a convenient starting-point. Paiva 

 was already making a name for himself by this study when he died 

 suddenly on the 11th August, 1919. The following is a list of the more 

 important papers published by him : 



1. " Aquatic Ehynchota from the Southern Shan States." 



2. " Rhynchota from Barkuda Island." 



3. " Notes on the Indian Glow-worm." 



4. " Rhynchota from the Garo Hills." 



All these appeared in the Records of the Indian Museum in the 

 years 1918 and 1919. 



Dr. F. H. Gravely, Assistant Superintendent, was appointed Superin- 

 tendent of the Government Museum, Madras, in 1919 and gave up his 

 appointment in Calcutta in January, 1920, to take up his new duties. 

 It is fortunate that his services are not lost to zoological research in 

 India, and we may be sure that the friendly and intimate relations main- 

 tained with the Zoological Survey of India by his predecessor, Dr. J. R. 

 Henderson, will not be interrupted in his time. He became Assistant 

 Superintendent in the Indian Museum in February, 1910, and after a 

 short period of special training under Mr. E. E. Green, then Entomolo- 

 gist to the Government of Ceylon, at Peradeniya, was placed in charge 

 of the Entomological Section. This section, owing to the smallness 

 of the Museum staiT, had inevitably been somewhat neglected since 

 the death of Mr. W. L. deNiceville, the last entomological specialist who 

 had been in charge of it. Dr. Gravely, with the able assistance of 

 the late Mr. Paiva, completely reorganized the collections and was 

 soon able to undertake important researches on the Arachnid^ and 



