1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. CXXXix 
1869, commenced to publish his work on the anatomy, physio" 
logy and morphology and of various Invertebrate groups.’ Sto- 
liczka joined the Geological Survey of India in 1862, and died in 
1874, on his way back from Central Asia, whither he had accom- 
panied Sir Dougles Forsyth’s Mission to Yarkand and Kash- 
gar as Naturalist. But his wide general knowledge of different 
branches of zoology enabled him even in this short period 
to achieve a high standard of thoroughness, a standard which was 
ably maintained by two Superintendents of the Indian Museum, 
J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock, his immediate successors in this 
d. 
certain more isolated naturalists who have made important con- 
tributions by the preparation of monographs dealing with differ- 
ent groups of the Vertebrata. The earliest of these is Thomas 
Hills, published in the same volume in 1831; Lieut. S. R. 
Tickell’s list of birds collected in the jungles of Borabhum and 
Dholbhum, published in the Journal of the Asiatic Socrety of 
Bengal in 1833; and Sir Walter Elliott’s catalogue of the 
Jerdon’s first sixteen years in India were spent in various 
parts of the Madras Presidency, including Madras, Nellore. 
the Nilgiri Hills and Tellicherry on the Malabar Coast ; and his 
papers in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science bear 
witness to the vigour of his researches into its zoology. Early 
in 1852 “he was appointed to the 4th Light Cavalry, then in 
the Saugor and Nerbudda territory, with which he served 
during the Mutiny of the Bengal army, where he saw some 
"1 Asiatic Society of Bengal, Centenary Review, Pt. III, p. 67. 
