PREFACE. 
remains nominally under the control of the Trustees and draws 
its funds partly through them from the Government of India 
and partly direct from the Government of Bengal, has its 
officer in charge in the person of the Principal of the Calcutta 
School of Art, a member of the Bengal Education Service. 
Only the Zoological and Anthropological Section remains 
solely and entirely under the control of the Trustees, who 
arrange for its financial support with the Imperial Education 
Department. The head of this section bears the title of 
Superintendent of the Indian Museum and is Secretary to the 
Trustees. 
It is thus evident that the highly complex organization 
of the Museum must be reflected at different angles in the 
case of the different sections. It seemed best, therefore, 
in devising the plan of this volume to allow each section to 
give expression to itself through the pen of one of its own 
officers, rather than to produce a uniform history that would 
give to each and all a uniform representation of accurate 
detail but possibly fallacious aspect. A certain repetition 
is involved in this scheme; but, at any rate, the reader 
interested or mainly interested in one phase of museum de¬ 
velopment will find his subject treated by an author who has 
made a practical study of it, and in the Chairman’s intro¬ 
ductory chapter * the whole is focussed to a common point. 
Information as to the Acts that deal or have dealt with 
the Museum as a whole, the present bye-laws, trustees and 
members of the staff past and present, visitors and publications 
will be found in the appendices at the end of the volume. 
i The lecture of which this chapter is a slightly modified embodiment 
was published in the Calcutta Review in 1914. In its present form it was 
issued by the Trustees as part of a pamphlet distributed to guests at the 
Centenary celebrations. 
