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Bombay Crawford Market. 
On the road from the Victoria Oar dens to the Bombay 
Natural History Society’s Museum is the Crawford Market, 
named after Mr. Arthur Crawford, who was Municipal Com- 
missioner of Bombay from 1865 to 1871. From Murray 
(“Handbook to India,” 8th Edition, 1911, p. 12) we learn 
that this market cost to build “over 11 lakhs of rupees,” 
that is over £73,333. 
On April 12, 1913, Mr. N. B. Kinnear and I visited 
this market. Among the numerous live animals for sale were 
monkeys of the genera Cercopithecus and Macacus, many 
Sacred Baboons, Fapio hamadryas , some Marmosets, black 
and white Buffed Lemurs, Lemur varius, specimens of the 
Bed-fronted and of the White-fronted Lemur, Lemur fulvus 
rujifrons and Lemur fulvus alhifrons^ a large series of pet 
Cats and Dogs, several species of Myna-birds, also Minivets, 
Hill- Tits, White-eyes, Indian Sparrows, Buntings, Himalayan 
Goldfinches, Crested Larks, Short-toed Larks, a Boiler, Cora- 
cias indica^ large numbers of Parrots of Indian, Moluccan, 
and Australian species, Chukor Partridges, Jungle Fowl, 
Pheasants, Herring Gull, etc. 
Gold and other fishes suitable for small aquaria can also 
be purchased here. 
Bombay Natural History Society’s Museum. 
This most interesting Museum in Apollo Street, Bombay, 
is most deservedly of worldwide renown. The Journal 
published by the Society is recognized everywhere as one 
of the most useful and best illustrated of scientific journals, 
and in many ways this Societ}^ is carrying on such valuable 
work, as for instance the careful enquiry into the damage 
caused by termites (“ white ants ”) and the means of pre- 
venting it, and also the very thorough survey of the mammals 
of India now in progress, that the house of Phipson and 
Company, in which the collections are lodged, may be looked 
upon as the zoological centre of the Indian Empire. 
