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which led to their enunciation by the founder may. well have 
exerted a strong influence against Zoological studies in the 
society. Bryan Hodgson, however, presented many valuable 
specimens to the Society’s Museum , and contributed nearly 
a hundred papers to its Researches and Journal between 1829 
and 1848. He was for many years Resident at the Court of 
Nepal, and made a special study of the bird and mammalian 
fauna of that country together with Sikkim and Tibet.! And it 
was his work that first made Calcutta the main centre of 
Zoological research in India. 
n about 1839, John McClelland, a member of the Bengal 
Medical Service with a keen interest in Zoology, was appointed 
Curator of the Asiatic Society’s Museum. He held this post 
for two years, after which he founded and edited the ‘ Calcutta 
Journal of Natural History” from 1841 to 1847 when it ceased 
to be published. In 1841, he was succeeded as Curator by 
Edward Blyth, under whose care the collections increased until 
the Society’s premises were crowded and the Society’s funds no 
longer sufficed for their proper preservation and exhibition. 
Blyth held the post tiil shortly before the transference of the 
Museum to Government in 1864, when ill-health compelled 
him to retire to England. According to the Centenary Review 
of the Asiatic Society he was “ the founder, in this country, of a 
school of what may be called field-zoologists. The active cor- 
respondence he kept on with the sportsmen-naturalists . .. .. in 
various parts of the country, and his elaborate notices of the pre- 
sentations which were made by them to the Society, not to speak 
of his numerous Memoirs, contributed an impetus to the study 
of Natural History that has done more to its extension in India 
contemporaries W. T. and H. F. Blanford, W. Theobald, H. 
Godwin-Austen, F. Stoliczka and G. and H. Nevill, whose work 
(1885) and Indian Museum (1914). together with those of their 
successors J. Wood-Masion, A. W. Al 
H ” 
ae ect eh 
! The Indian Museum : 1814-1914, p. 68, and Asiatic Society of Bengal 
‘* Centenary Review,” p. 58. 
