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PROGRESS OF THE MAMMAL SURVEY OF INDIA, 

 BURMA AND CEYLON. 



There is not very much progress to report since the last Journal 

 "was published in December 1913. 



Mr. Crump has been collecting in Kumaon at Ramnagar to the 

 West of Almora and then moved to Naini Tal. As it was desirable 

 for a camp to be made a little nearer the N.-W. border of Nepal he 

 then went to Lohaghat and thence to Philibit. He has now left 

 Kumaon for Palamau and Hazaribagh in the province of Behar and 

 Orissa. Mr. Oldfield Thomas writes from the British Museum that 

 the Kumaon Collection is most interesting since it contains many 

 animals illustrating Hodgson's Nepal work. 



Mr. Shortridge arrived at Victoria Point, Lower Tenasserim, in 

 December and has been steadily collecting in that neighboiirhood and 

 ■on the Pakchan River since then. As there are more than 800 

 Islands in the Mergui Archipelago it was decided to work the main- 

 land first and to leave the Islands till another dry season. He is 

 now leaving the extreme South for Mergui. As was anticipated the 

 specimens obtained from Lower Tenasserim are of much interest and 

 contain a large number of specimens similar to those collected by 

 Anderson in this locality some fifty years ago. 



Major Mayor is still collecting in Ceylon and is now at Kandy 

 and is working the higher parts of the Island. 



As regards finance many members have kindty sent in donations 

 since the last Journal was issued as will be seen from the list of 

 subscriptions received given below. 



The Government of Bombay have kindly promised a further dona- 

 tion of Rs. 10,000 towards the expenses of the Survey in addition 

 to the Rs. 2,500 contributed by them in 1912. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have also promised a further 

 donation of £100. 



The thanks of the Society are due to the following railways who 

 have kindly promised to carry our Collectors and their assistants 

 with free luggage over their systems whilst working in connection 

 with the Survey : — 



Ceylon Railways. Bombay, Baroda and Central 



Oudh and Rohilkund Railway. India Railway. 



North Western Railway. Burma Railways. 



Eastern Bengal Railway. East Indian Railway. 



Assam Railways and Trading Great Indian Peninsula Railway. 



Company. Madras and Southern Mahratta 



Assam-Bengal Railway. Railway, 



Bengal and North Western Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway. 



Railway. South Indian Railway. 



Bengal-Nagpur Railway. 



The British India Steam Navigation Company have also gener- 

 ously agreed to bring over from Burma and Ceylon boxes of 



