304 Zoology. 



Colonel Bailward served in the Royal Artillery from 1874 to 1905. 

 He visited Persia in 1886, and again in 1889. In 1904 he made 

 another expedition into Persia, taking vpith him Mr. E. B. Woosnam, who 

 made an excellent collection of birds, which Colonel Bailward has presented 

 to the Museum. 



Baker (E. C. Stuart). 



22 specimens of eggs irom Cachar. Presented. [1902. 8. 23, 1-22.] 

 87 specimens of eggs from Cachar. Purchased. [1902. 11. 6, 1-79; 

 1902. 11. 21, 1-8.] 



Mr. Stuart Baker is one of the best-known Indian ornithologists of 

 the present day, and has contributed some important articles on the birds 

 of Assam and Cachar to the " Journal " of the Bombay Natural History 

 Society and to the " Ibis." Nearly all the specimens received from him 

 were eggs previously unrepresented in the Museum collection. 



Baker (Joseph). 



114 specimens of young British birds. [39. 8. 3, 1-114.] 



73 birds from Cambridgeshire. [40. 6, 23, 5-22 ; 40. 6. 24, 48-67 ; 

 41. 6, 1672-1696 ; 44. 1. 1, 2-3 ; 44. 1. 2, 1-6.] 



292 birds from England. [49. 12. 24, 2-174; 50. 2. 19, 1-55; 

 50. 8. 13, 1-57; 50. 8. 21, 1-13 ; 50. 11. 5, 8-51.] 



66 nests of British birds with eggs. [51. 2. 11, 1-28 ; 51. 11. 25, 

 1-38.] 



15 birds from England. [54. 1. 31, 1-15.] 



Joseph Baker was born at Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, and worked for 

 some time for Mr. Gould. Under the direction of the latter the big 

 Giraffe which adorned the Mammal Gallery in the old British Museum 

 was mounted by Joseph Baker, and Mr. Edward Gerrard, sen., lent a 

 hand in completing the work, which was considered a big undertaking 

 in those days. After leaving Mr. Gould, Baker had his workshops in 

 Cardington Street, where my friends the Gerrards, father and son (to 

 whom I am indebted for much information about the naturalists of the 

 middle of the last century), used to visit him. 



Towards the end of tiie forties a determined effort was made by Dr. 

 John Edward Gray to improve the exhibition series of British birds in the 

 public galleries at Bloomsbury, and the task of procuring the specimens 

 was given to Joseph Baker, who collected most of them near his 

 home at Melbourne, where he spent his holidays. The birds were well 

 mounted by him, but in the conventional attitudes of the period, and most 

 of them have been transferred to other Museums, or replaced by more 

 naturally stuffed examples. For many years Baker was employed by 

 Mr. George Robert Gray in mounting birds for the galleries, and as at 

 that time it was considered to be the rule of a Museum to mount 

 everything, without consideration as to its value, the exhibition series was 

 alone thought of, and priceless specimens were recklessly mounted, with 

 the result that types and other valuable specimens were exposed to the 

 light and dust of the public galleries, where they were very soon bleached 

 out of all recognition. 



When I was appointed in 1872, one of my first cares was to unmount 

 and remove from the galleries all specimens of historical value. In many 

 instances this interposition came too late, and irretrievable damage had 

 been done. It will hardly be credited that I have found as many as eleven 

 specimens of an Eagle, all in the same plumage, and all from the same 

 place, mounted in a row on stands, and in one instance the bird had lost 



