INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



The Zoological Museum of the East-India Company consists 

 of specimens in all departments of the Science, from the Company's 

 Oriental possessions, contributed by public servants who have been 

 attached as Naturalists to Missions and Deputations on behalf of 

 the Indian Government, or by gentlemen of the civil and military 

 services, as presents to the Honourable Court of Directors. 



Collections and Contributions in the particular branch of Ento- 

 mology, have been received in the Museum in the following 

 chronological order : — 



1802. JEzcdelin de Joinville. — A series of Insects from Ceylon, chiefly 

 Lepidoptera, presented to the Indian Government, ou the 

 transfer of Ceylon to the British Crown. 



1813 to 1819. Thomas Sorsfield, M.B.—T\\e Entomological Collec- 

 tions made in Java, during the possession of that island by 

 Britain ; consisting of a large series of Insects in all Order.s, 

 accompanied by Drawings of Lepidopterous Insects in all 

 the stages of their existence. 



1823. George Finl-ayson. — Insects collected during the Mission of 

 John Crawford, Esq., to Siam and Hue, the capital of 

 Cochin-China. 



1829. Madras Government. — Collections made by the Company's 

 Naturalist at Eort St. George. 



1831. Colonel W. H. Sylces. — The Collections — consisting of a large 

 series of Insects in all Orders, besides Birds, Mammalia, 

 &c. — made during the Statistical Survey of the Dukhun. 



1840. Major JR. B. Femherton. — Insects collected during his Mission 

 to Eootan in 1837-38. 



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