exxxviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVU, 
were briefly indicated in 1870! by W. T. Blanford? whose more 
detailed subsequent papers on the subject, published in 1876' and 
1901,* respectively still provide the fullest statement of the sub- 
ject that has appeared. And I must further point out the great 
impetus that the study of the invertebrate fauna of India 
received from members of this group. 
rom Donovan’s “ Natural History of the Insects 
of India ” already an onied, Invertebrate Zoology remained 
almost matanahod until 1830, when Benson and Hunter 
Godwin-Austin, and Stoliczka ; and extended to marine forms 
by A two Nevills 
ay.” 
and with a microscope that must have been anit defective 
according to modern ideas. His long series of pevers in the 
to the Spongillidee Even his earlier mistakes are instructive, 
for they are due not so much to actual errors in observation 
as to a faithful iota of what was observed with faulty 
apparatus.”® Carter in Bombay was thus the first to make 
a pee study of invertebrate animals as opposed to their dried 
remain, 
The next to do this was Stoliczka’ in Calcutta who about 
‘ Notes on some Reptilia and Amphibia from Central India,” Journ. 
4e. Soe. Be XXXIX (Il), 18 3 
aes oie eer (II), 1870 ; zoogeographical subdivisions of India 
2 Concernin W. T. Blanford see obituary notice in Ree. Geol. Survei 
of —, XXXII, pp. 241-257. foe ieee : 
: The African Element in the Fauna of India : a Criticism of Mr. 
Wallace 8 views as expressed in the Geographical Distrib ution of Animals. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) XVIII, 1876, pp. 277-2 
_* The Distribution of Vertebrate A Animals in India, Ceylon and Burma, 
Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (B) CXCIV, 1901, pp. 335-436 6, pl. X XLIV. 
5 Madras Journal of Literature and “pesligt XI. 1840, pp. 105-129 : 
Descriptions of Insects by J. O. Westwood, pp. 1 
6 dale, a of British India. Petiecter Sponges, Hydroids 
and ew p. 
si ce a Staliczka see ‘‘ Memoir of the Life and Work of Ferdinand 
to. bane (1886, 36 pp.) in ‘* Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand 
Mission fone, "1878-91 ). 
