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EDITOlUAL. 
Mammal Survey . — We have much satisfactiou iu acknowledging the 
receipt of a grant of Rs. 45,000 from the Imperial Government of India 
towards the expenses of the Mammal Survey. This grant was paid to the 
Society in two instalments of Rs. 22,500 for the years 1921-22 and 1922-23 
respectively. The Mammal Survey has been further benefited by a grant of 
£ 100 from the Royal Society and a donation of £ 50 from the Zoological 
Society of London. It is with much gratification that we record 
these marks of appreciation on the part of the Indian Government and 
the premier learned Societies of the Empire. Our thanks are also due to 
all those members of the Society who gave us their generous support at 
a time when funds were urgently needed by the Society to complete 
the task it had set out to accomplish. 
With the financial aspect more or less assured the Society confi- 
dently hopes to complete the Survey as originally planned. Four 
collectors are at present engaged in the work. Mr. C. Primrose has recently 
completed the Survey of the Mergui Archipelago and Mr. Oldfield Thomas 
has written very appreciatively of his work among those Islands. Owing 
to the impracticability of continuing his work in Burma during the monsoon, 
Mr. Primrose has been transferred to Gwalior and our thanks are due to 
H. H. The Maharaja for permission accorded to our collector to work in 
his territories and for the facilities promised him. Mr. Wells is working 
in the Kangra District in the North Western Himalayas. His report 
recounting his experiences of “ Scrambling over frozen snow slopes ” 
reached us in Bombay on a particularly vicious day at the latter end of 
May. It is to be recorded that the temptation to exchange the office 
chair for a collector’s gun was successfully overcome. Our third collector 
Mr. McCann is carrying on the Survey in the Palni Hills in Southern 
India. He proposes to descend to the plains during the monsoon, his 
future venue being the Salem and Trichinopoly Districts. The Society 
will be grateful to members in Southern India for any assistance they can 
accord him while in their districts. W e are pleased further to report, that 
permission has once more been obtained from the Nepal Government for 
N. A. Baptista to resume the Survey work in that country, where Col. W. F. 
O’Connor, the British Envoy, has very kindly agreed to take over the work 
of his predecessor Col. R. L. Kennion in supervising the arrangements. 
Members are aware that the material obtained through the Agency of 
the Survey is being worked out at the British Museum by the members 
of the staff and also by the aid of voluntary workers siieh as the late Mr. 
R. C. Wroughton and Mr. T. B. Fry. Mr. Oldfield Thomas in a recent 
letter mentioned that there would shortly be a possibility of our having to 
secure the services of some one who would be willing to take over the work 
of cataloguing and labelling the Survey material. He writes that there 
must be many retired officials in England, who are simply pining for the 
want of something to do, who would be ready to take up this work 
as a hobby. Whether they take up the scientific side of the work or 
attend merely to its routine nature, they would in either instance be 
doing work of much value and would be rendering a great service both 
to the British Museum and to the Survey. Both Mr. Wroughton and 
Mr. Fry came to the Museum after retirement from official life and 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas would be glad to hear from any of our members who 
would be willing to help in any way. 
Bombay Fisheries.— Vf hen in 1917, the newly formed Government 
Department of Industries turned its attention to the fishing industry of 
the Presidency with a view to its development and improvement, and 
