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(d) The Zoological Survey will be a scientific department of the 



Government of India under the direct control of the Depart- 

 ment of Education just as the Botanical Survey is under that 

 of the Department of Revenue and Agriculture. 



The relations between the new Sui'vey and the Trustees will be regu- 

 lated by clause 7 (a) of the Indian Museum Act (X of 1910) 

 , and will be identical with those that at present exist between 



the Archaeological vSurvey and the Trustees except that the 

 Director of the Zoological Survey, as stated in paragraph 3 (c) 

 above, will be ex-officio Secretary to the Trust. The Trustees 

 will lend to the Director of the Zoological Survey their zoolo- 

 gical collections, retaining visiting powers in the Zoological 

 Section as in the others in which a similar loan has been 

 effected. They will, however, retain full control of their Secre- 

 tary's office. 



(e) It will be the duty of the Zoological Survey to act as guardians 



of the standard zoological collection of the Indian Empire and 

 as such to give every assistance in their power both to officials 

 and to others, in the identification of zoological specimens sub- 

 mitted to them, arranging, if requested to do so, to send col- 

 lections to specialists abroad for identification in cases in which 

 no specialist is available in India. The Survey will also obtain 

 the fullest possible information about the systematic and geogra- 

 phical zoology of the Indian Empire and will place this inform- 

 ation at the disposal of inquirers. It will not, however, in- 

 terfere in any way with private enterprise in zoological matters 

 or with the scientific work of other Imperial or Provincial 

 Government departments. 



The Forest and Agricultural Departments subordinate to the Govern- 

 ment of India have agreed to collaborate in the Zoological 

 vSurvey on the same condition of co-operation as exists between 

 the Botanical Survey and other Government departments, i.e., 

 collaboration without subordination. Local Governments and 

 Administrations will, it is hoped, similarly allow their officers 

 to co-operate with the Zoological Survey without being in any 

 way subordinate to its Director. Their co-operation will be 

 most welcome and valuable. 



(/) The Director of the Zoological Survey will act as Zoological Adviser 

 to the Government of India in the same way as the Director 

 of the Botanical Survey acts as Botanical and the Director 

 General of Archaeology as Archaeological Adviser. He will be 

 treated as a head of a department and will be empowered, 

 subject to the usual conditions, to re-appropriate funds within 

 his budget grants from one head to another and to create 

 temporary appointments up to Rs. 50 a month. 



Just as the Director General of Archaeology is in charge of the archaso- 

 logical collection of the Indian Museum, so the Dii-ector of the 

 Zoological Survey will be in charge of the zoological and an- 

 thropological collections. 



ig) The zoological publications of the Indian Museum will be con- 

 tinued in their present form and under their present titles but 

 will be edited by the Director of the Zoological Survey instead 

 of by the Superintendent of the Indian Museum. The great 

 bibliographical inconvenience involved in any change of name 

 will thus be avoided and any break of continuity rendered un- 

 necessary. 



{h) The personal allowance of Rs. 200 a month at present given to 

 the Senior Assistant Superintendent, who will be styled Super- 



