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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
ethnology of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Burma, 
Lower Bengal, Darjiling, Chittagong and Chutia Nagpur 
was particularly well represented in this manner ; but con¬ 
siderations of space made it impossible to keep to the 
arrangement. 
The models of racial types are still perhaps the most popu¬ 
lar feature of the gallery. They were prepared for the 
Calcutta Exhibition under the supervision of the late Sir 
Herbert Risley and are believed to give a very accurate repre¬ 
sentation of the physical proportions of the different tribes 
of Northern India. The clothes, weapons, etc. are in most 
cases actual specimens. The whole series has recently been 
repaired by the son of the man who made the original casts. 
The collection as a whole is now very crowded, and apart 
from the public gallery little storage-space is available. For 
some years it has been felt that the objects should be given 
more space in the show-cases, in which a more intelligent 
display should be made, and scientifically arranged compara¬ 
tive exhibits shown, as well as general and geographical ones, 
with explanatory labels. 
In 1911 the ethnological collections were transferred 
from the Industrial to the Natural History Section, and the 
latter assumed the official style of Zoological and Anthropo¬ 
logical Section. Anthropology was thus reunited, for the 
valuable collection of human skulls, made chiefly by the late 
Dr. John Anderson, had remained under the direct care of 
the Superintendent, while a set of the well-known models of 
faces, hands and feet prepared in India and Central Asia by 
the Schlagintweits had been transferred to the Industrial, or, 
as it was called at the time, the Economic Section. 
The skulls have never been exhibited to the public, they 
are now systematically arranged in a small room situated at 
the end of the Bird Gallery. With them is a large series of 
human pelves. Unfortunately, although these latter bones 
are all carefully numbered, the register to which the numbers 
refer has long been missing and consequently the provenance 
of the specimens cannot be traced, so that, unlike the skulls, 
they have little scientific value. 
