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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
models still exist and others evidently formed the prototypes 
of models on a larger scale constructed at a later date. 
In 1838 the rooms in which the Asiatic Society’s collec¬ 
tions were preserved were described as damp, dark and 
dirty,” and it was to remove this reproach that the Society 
first appointed a curator. About this time a large propor¬ 
tion of the older specimens evidently disappeared. In 1849 
Dr. RajendraLala Mittra was commissioned to produce a cata¬ 
logue of the curiosities ” in the possession of the Society, all 
objects not included under the headings Zoological ” and 
Geological” being so classed. 
This catalogue enumerated 7 busts, 81 pictures, 130 wea¬ 
pons, 490 manufactured objects of industrial service, 41 raw 
economic products, 66 musical instruments, 370 images of 
brass and stone, 32 architectural objects, and a series of 
inscriptions and manuscripts. 
,In 1868 the catalogue was revised in manuscript and the 
following figures were given :— 
Armour and weapons 
370 
Manufactured industrial objects 
725 
Raw economic products 
55 
Musical instruments 
68 
Images of brass and stone and archi¬ 
tectural objects 
641 
also noted that a large number of 
specimens 
tained before 1849 had been lost. No difference was drawn 
at the time between ethnological and archaeological speci¬ 
mens. The two allied branches of science were, however, 
distinguished when the specimens were removed to the exist¬ 
ing museum buildings. 
Dr. John Anderson took a great interest in the ethno¬ 
logical specimens handed over by the Asiatic Society and was 
anxious that the section of ethnology should be adequately 
represented in the new museum. In his first Annual Report 
(January, 1867) he says :— 
If the Ethnology of India is to be illustrated in the Galleries of the 
new building each leading tribe should have its physical features por¬ 
trayed by male and female crania and pelves, and by coloured casts 
taken from life, and its civilization delineated by the clothing of the 
