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exlii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S.. XVII. 
of a series of the highest importance. After the transference 
s Museum to Government such catalogues con- 
tinued to appear, though under the auspices of the Trustees of 
Indian Museum. The first of these was Dobson’s Monograph 
of the Asiatic Chiroptera (1876). It was commenced as a 
descriptive catalogue, this itself being a great advance on 
Theobald’s list; but as it was found to include almost all the 
known Asiatic Chiroptera it was ultimately enlarged so as to in- 
clude the whole of them, thus greatly enhancing its value at com- 
paratively little cost. This volume was followed by Neville’s 
Molluse Catologue (one fasciculus only, 1877) and Handlists 
(1878-85) never, unfortunately, completed ; and by Anderson 
and Sclater’s Catalogue of the Mammalia (1881-1891). With 
Distant’s Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae, published in parts be- 
tween 1889 and 1892, the series entered upon a new phase in 
quarto, instead of octavo, form and illustrated by carefully exe- 
cuted plates. This was the first of a series of similar monographs. 
dealing for the most part with marine organisms, which conti- 
nued to be published till the completion in 1914 of Koehler’s 
work on the inoderms. By that time a regular serial in 
two sizes entitled “Records” and “Memoirs” respectively 
well established, rendering the further continuance of sepa- 
rate catalogues unnecessary. In 1916, the publication of these 
Records and Memoirs passed automatically, without change 
of title, from the Trustees of the Indian Museum to the newly 
established Zoological Survey of India: and the Investigator 
[llustrations, which were commenced in 1892 as a separate 
series composed of plates only, were incorporated with the 
** Memoirs. ” 
| With its predecessors the Transactions of the Medical and Physical 
Society and Gleanings in Science, concerning which see Centenary Review 
A.8.B., pp. 50-51. 
