material not previously represented. In 1927-1928, members of the Museum staff 
accompanied Mr. Vernay to India to secure data for backgrounds and to make studies 
of the actual localities for the habitat groups. In all of this work Mr. Vernay has 
assumed the cost and has devoted himself enthusiastically to the field work and to the 
preparation of the splendid exhibits in this Hall. 
The specimens which are displayed form only a part of the collections obtained 
by Mr. Vernay and Colonel Faunthorpe during seven years of field work. There are 
others used to augment Museum study collections which aid materially in educational 
work. 
One of the first and most important groups secured was that of the Indian 
elephant. Then followed in rapid succession the one-horned rhino, the gaur, chital, 
sambar and swamp deer. Later expeditions brought back fine examples of the 
barking deer, hog deer, musk deer, and also such important carnivores as the 
tiger, lion, leopard, hyena, sloth bear, wild dog and others reproduced in this series of 
illustrations. 
Mr. Vernay and Colonel Faunthorpe were able to make such an unrivalled series 
of collections because of Colonel Faunthorpe's long and intimate knowledge of game 
conditions in India and, too, because of the hearty support of the government officials 
and native princes, who spared nothing to assist the collectors in gathering a truly 
representative series of the larger mammals of southern Asia so that in the years to 
follow the world might still view, as in their native habitats, a species which will have 
passed from the earth. _ 
r GEO. N. PINDAR. 
