PMOGBUSS OF THE MAMMAL SURVEY. 641 



a new genus of rock-rat which Mr. Wroughton describes in this 

 -I'ournal (page 340) under the name Gremnomys cutohicus. 



Mr. Crump returned to Bombay and started for the Central 

 Provinces in October commencing at Asirgarh and then collecting 

 at Hewra, Siwal, Mandwa, Chandgarh, Ganoor, all in Nimar, and 

 np to the end of December had obtained some 167 specimens.. 

 Unfortunately he has not been able to obtain much assistance sO' 

 far from the natives in the C. P., and has found them unwilling tC' 

 help even when they are offered money for specimens. He writes,, 

 " a very little help from the natives and I could have got foxes, 

 hut the people of Nimar have not the faintest notion of shikar ; 

 they ran down a few hares and caught some rats in their huts, 

 nothing more. I offered Rs. 3 for a porcupine and up to Rs. 5 for 

 large mammals that were out of the ordinary. I offered rewards 

 if they would show me ' earths ' or other hiding places, but there . 

 was no response." 



Mr. Shortridge, the second Collector, arrived in India on the- 

 20th October 1911, and started collecting at once at Dharwar in 

 the Southern Mahratta Country. The Society are under a great 

 obligation to Mr. R. M. Phillips, the District Superintendent of 

 Police at Dharwar, for the invaluable assistance he has given to 

 Mr. Shortridge, who in writing says that in consequence of Mr. 

 Phillips' assistance there has been no dearth of specimens from the 

 first, whilst every difficulty has been removed. Mr. Shortridge 

 obtained some 571 specimens from Dharwar, Devikop, Gadag (where 

 Mr. T. J. Spooner, C. E,, an old member of the Society, rendered 

 him much assistance) and Potoli, all in the Dharwar district. 



Mr. Shortridge is now in North Kanara and proceeds south through 

 Kanara into Mysore territory and gradually into Southern India. 



"The Field," commenting on the progress of this Survey in 

 their issue of the 10th February 1912, states : "So far, therefore, 

 as the Survey has hitherto extended, it tends to show that India has 

 been thoroughly well worked in respect of its mammalian fauna ; 

 most of this work, it should be remembered, having been accom- 

 plished by amateurs." Such a statement as this is not calculated 

 to help the Society in the work they have undertaken nor is it fan- 

 to draw such general conclusions from the first report of tli<^ 



