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a phalanx of able and enthusiastic zoologists, among whom Beddome, 

 Blanford, Day, Godwin Austen, Hume, Stoliczka, Theobald, and 

 Anderson himself, were busy gathering material from all parts and 

 publishing the results in the ' Journal ' and the * Proceeding? ' of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London,' the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' as well as in 

 special monographs. Anderson's share in the movement resulted in a 

 Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Indian Museum (vol. 1, 1881), since 

 completed by Mr. W. L. Sclater, his * Anatomical and Zoological 

 Researches' (1879), and numerous papers on Indian and Persian Rep- 

 tiles and Batrachians. He paid special attention to the Chelonians of 

 India and neighbouring countries, the study of which, through the 

 somewhat eccentric systematic attempts of Dr. Gray at the time, had 

 lapsed into a state of extreme confusion, which Dr. Anderson did. 

 much to clear up. One of his most important contributions to 

 Mammalogy is a monograph of the extraordinary fluviatile Cetaceans 

 Platanista and Orcella, which is incorporated in his ' Researches.' 



Outside the domain of Zoology, he wrote a 'Handbook to the 

 Archseological Collections of the Indian Museum, Calcutta ' (two 

 volumes, published in 1883 and 1884). 



Notwithstanding his numerous duties as superintendent of the 

 museum and his manifold voluntary occupations, Dr. Anderson found 

 time to take part in two expeditions to Upper Burma and South 

 Western China (Yunnan), which he accompanied in the capacity of 

 naturalist and medical officer (1868-69 and 1874-75). The scientific 

 results of these expeditions were made known by him in a paper on 

 the sources of the Irawadi, contributed to the ' Geographical Journal ' 

 in 1870, in a report issued by the Government of India in 1871, in a 

 book entitled ' Mandalay to Momien' (1876), and in a great illus- 

 trated work, which appeared in 1879 as * Anatomical and Zoological 

 Researches, comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the 

 Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan.' In 1880 he paid a visit to 

 Egypt and Palestine, where he made some zoological collections ; and 

 in 1881-82 he undertook an expedition, on behalf of the Indian 

 Museum, to Tenasserim and the Mergui Archipelago, with the prin- 

 cipal object of investigating the marine fauna, an expedition which 

 resulted in the publication, after his return to England, of a series of 

 papers by himself and various specialists, in the * Journal of the 

 Linnean Society,' and afterwards reprinted, in 1889, as a work in two 

 volumes, entitled ' Contributions to the Fauna of Mergui and its 

 Archipelago.' This was supplemented by a book on the history of 

 Tenasserim, which appealed in 1890 in Triibner's Oriental Series under 

 the title of ' English Intercourse with Siam in the XVJIth Century.' 



Dr. Anderson gave valuable assistance in the organisation of the 

 International Exhibition held in Calcutta in 1883-84 under the presi- 



