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taken to Kandy. ‘This was probably,” he says, “‘ on account of 
our neglect, viz. in not sending a letter and present to the king 
at our first coming, who, looking upon himself as a great mon- 
arch, as he is indeed, requires to be treated with suitable 
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ment of the East India Company he published his “ Historical 
Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies,” the 
gives among other things an account of the Elephant, with the 
methods of catching it and the uses to which it is put, illustrated 
by a quaint picture of ‘An Execution by an Elephant ” 
gives figures of two types of monkey (J'emnopithecus and Maca- 
cus); he describes and records the habits of six kinds of ants (in- 
cluding termites) ; and he carefully distinguishes between the 
three different kinds of honey bee (A pis dorsata, A. indica and A. 
florea) found in Ceylon. 
No further attention appears to have been paid to Zoology 
in Ceylon till 1821, nearly a century and a half after the appear- 
ance of Knox’s book, when John (younger brother of Sir Hum- 
phrey) Davy, an Army Surgeon, published his “ Account of the 
Interior of Ceylon and of its Inhabitants, with Travels in that 
Island,” including a chapter on snakes and the land leech. 
Figures of several snakes are included, as well as an account of 
experiments with their poison. 
In 1851 J. W. Bennett published “A selection of Rare 
and Curious Fishes found upon the Coast of Ceylon: from 
drawings made in that Island and coloured from life—With 
letter-press descriptions.” In 1852, E. F. Kelaart. again an 
Army Medical Officer serving in the Colony, published his 
“ Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae ’’ and Mr. E. L. Layard of the 
Ceylon Civil Service commenced a series of contributions to 
the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. To Kelaart, 
distinct unit and as part of the fauna of India generally. Among 
the former mention may be made of Sir W. Emerson Tennent’s 
“ Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon” (1861), W. Y. 
Legge’s “ Natural History of the Birds of Ceylon” (1880), F. 
Moore’s ‘“‘ Lepidoptera of Ceylon  ( 1880-1887}, Drs. Paul and 
Fritz Sarasin’s “ Ergebni turwi haftlicher Forchungen 
-auf Ceylon” (first part published in 1887), E. E. Green’s 
