XX Report on the Zoological S^iriwi/ of India 



to which alhision has already been made and by the weighing and 

 Addilions to the An= fishing apparatns from the vSouthern Shan States, 

 thropological collec= bnt also by fishing apparatus and other speci- 

 *'""^- mens from Mysore and Orissa presented by Dr. 



B. L. Chandhuri, by a series of Javanese shadow-play figures pur- 

 chased in Calcutta (of special interest as illustrating the Javanese 

 concept of Indian heroes), a fine Tibetan saddle presented by the 

 executors of the late Surgeon-Major J. O'Leary, and by several other 

 ethnographical specimens of less importance. Mr. J. H. Hutton, 

 I.C.S., Sub-Divisional Officer, Mokokchung, Naga Hills, helped us 

 greatly by pointing out certain discrepancies in the clothing of the 

 Naga figures in the gallery and by presenting photographs and cane 

 belts by means of which the mistakes might be corrected. The 

 additions to the anthropological collection have thus been con- 

 siderably larger and more important than has been the case for 

 many years past. 



The zoological collections have remained in good condition and 

 Preservation and ar= advances have been made in the re-arrangement 

 rangement of the col= of the representatives of several groups of 

 lections. animals, notably in the collection of Asiatic 



squirrels, most of which have been recently returned from the Kuala 

 Lumpur Museum, where the skins have been carefully repaired un-der 

 the superintendence of Mr. H. C. Robinson, Director of Museums, 

 Federated Malay States ; in that of the Decapod Crustacea ; in that 

 of the freshwater Gastropod shells, and in the entomological collec- 

 tion generally. Perhaps the most notable advance, however, in this 

 direction has been the entire re-arrangement of the mammal skeletons, 

 which have been stored in new boxes on iron racks in a room 

 cleared for the purpose. A plan of the room prepared by Mr. Kemp 

 makes it possible for the first time to gain ready access to the 

 skeletons of any particular family or genus. As large numbers of 

 dead mammals are constantly being received from the Calcutta 

 Zoological Gardens and many of these are skeletonized, the collection 

 is now becoming a valuable one. We trust that when normal 

 conditions are reassumed, its arrangement will be of use not only to 

 our own department but also to the palaeontologists of the Geological 

 Survey. 



Most of our correspondents in Europe have been obliged to dimi- 

 Progress in naming of ^ish, if not to forego altogether, the assistance 

 the Zoological collec= they gave us so s generously in times of peace. 

 *''*"^- A few, however, have been able to find spare 



moments in the stress of more pressing work. We are specially 

 indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen for the work 

 he has done on the land molluscs of the Abor country and Madras, 

 to Mr. F. F. Laidlaw for the naming of dragonflies, to Mr. G. J. Arrow 

 of the British Museum for work on the Lamellicorn beetles, to 

 Mr. S. Maulik of the Imperial College of Science, London, for work 

 on Chrysomelid beetles and to Dr. W. E. Collinge of St. Andrews for 

 naming Isopod Crustacea. 



