426 Note on the Zoology, &c. [Ave. 
Mr. Honeson’s plan, however, is not without objections, though 
infinitely superior to that deprecated above. Native names are often 
applied to a large class of sometimes very different animals, and vary 
in every district : and a name derived from the habitat is objectionable 
where that habitat extends through a wide range. The Parra Chinen- 
sis, or Sinensis, for it has been called by both names indiscriminately, 
has been found at Tamlék; and the Buceros Gingianus is a native of 
Midnapur. 
By the above notice it will be seen that the zoological papers in 
this part are most creditable to Mr. Hopeson in every point of view; 
exhibiting as they do, his knowledge, research, and industry, in the 
most favourable light : and it is to be hoped that his example will be 
followed by the many men of talent which India can boast of, and who 
have time at their disposal. Among those who have already distin- 
guished themselves in this way, may be mentioned Messrs. Honeson, 
Benson, Grant, Hutton*, and several anonymous contributors of 
articles in the ‘‘ GunaNnines IN ScreNcz,” and “ JourRNAL OF THE 
Asiatic Socisty.’’ We may fairly anticipate that their exertions will be 
redoubled by the example set before them by Mr. Hopeson; nay, we 
may surely in these times, and under a government, the head of which 
is so justly celebrated for the anxiety he has ever evinced to promote 
the cause of science, indulge a hope that officers, duly qualified 
for the purpose of investigating the productions of nature, willbe sent 
upon missions, likely to afford facilities for the purpose, into remote or 
little frequented countries. Our expeditions, hitherto, have not been 
remarkable for the scientific talent they have displayed, though the 
countries of Java, Birma, Tibet, Siam, and Chira Punji, afford the 
most valuable fossil remains of a former, and the most curious specimens 
of the living world. An amusing instance of the English-Indian method 
of pursuing scientific inquiries, is to be met with in the expedition 
sent by Major Burnzy to collect fossils on the site of Dr. Crawrurp’s 
collections ; in which the exertions of that gentleman, remarkable as 
he is for his zeal in the cause, were frustrated by the fact of his 
having nobody but an Apothecary at his disposal, who was so little con- 
versant with the subject, that though “the ground was every where 
strewed with fragments of petrified bones and trees, he unfortunately 
fell in with nothing worthy of notice.” ‘* He seems,” says the Edi- 
tor, ‘‘ to have looked for skeletons in a more perfect state, and to have 
imagined that such had been collected by Dr. Crawrurp, which is far 
* To this gentleman the author of the present notice owes his thanks for some 
specimens of a species of Valvata and eggs of Ampullaria; and his apologies for 
not haying noticed them before. 
