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Orissa. Bengal, Burma and the Andamans 
He paid a short visit to England in 1870, where he studied 
fish-ladders. On his return he was offered the post of Ins- 
pector-General of Fisheries, with power, when not required by 
Goverment in Calcutta, to travel about the country and collect 
information on subjects connected with the Department. His 
time was thus spent from January 1871 to early in 1874, during 
which period he visited every large river in India, and nearly 
the entire coast from Gwadur in Baluchistan to Mergui in 
Tenasserim. 
His account of ‘‘The Fishes of India” as already noted 
appeared in parts between 1875 and 1878. This book dealt 
with a much larger area than did Jerdon’s manuals, which latter 
included only Peninsular India and the country between it 
Allan ©. Hume and issued by him from Calcutta till 1888, when 
it came to an end. As complete comp 
manuals were soon felt t 
mendation of the Government of India the Secretary of State 
in Council sanctioned the commencement 0 
British India” series, under the editorship of W. T. Blanford 
in 1883. The first part of the first volume, on Mammals written 
by Blanford himself, appeared in 1888. The series now in- 
cludes 39 volumes: but the subject is so vast that it seems 
almost as far as ever from being complete. 
Apart from Stray Feathers and the earlier Madras Journal 
of Literature and Science (1833-73) and Calcutta Journal: of 
Natural History (1841-1847) there was up to about this period 
only one journal in India in which zoological work could be 
