THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 
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ever^ are of great importance and value, including as they 
do many types and not a few unique specimens. They 
represent a fauna of which recent additions have been 
made to our collections by the specimens brought to India 
by Mr. J. Coggin Brown of the Geological Survey, and des¬ 
cribed in the Records of the Indian Museum in 1910. 
Among the private donors to whom the Museum is 
more especially indebted, a considerable number have al¬ 
ready been mentioned in reference to the collections of the 
Asiatic Society^ and to those made on military and political 
expeditions. Such names as those of Blanford and Sto- 
liczka, Godwin-Austen and John Anderson would naturally 
be inscribed on any list of our benefactors. Indeed, Dr. An¬ 
derson in particular would hardly escape mention under seve¬ 
ral different headings, whether as official surgeon-naturalist 
beyond the frontier, as an officer of the Museum, or as a 
munificent donor.'' It is no secret that a great part of the 
expenses he incurred in making the collections which found 
their resting-place in the Museum was incurred at his own 
private charges. 
The zoological collections that the Museum owes to pri¬ 
vate donors are chiefly representative of localities or districts 
rather than of special groups of animals. The extremely 
varied and abundant specimens from the north-east corner 
of Assam presented by the late Mr. S. E. Peal, a well-known 
tea-planter of Sibsagar, are, for example, of peculiar value 
as illustrating the fauna of one of the most interesting dis¬ 
tricts in the Indian Empire; while those collected by several 
of the Hugh pilots, notably Messrs. W. M. Daly, A. J. Milner 
and J. Barnet, at the mouth of that river, are from a region 
hardly surpassed in interest for the study of the origin of 
freshwater faunas. From the Andaman Islands and the 
Nicobars Lt.-Colonel A. R. S. Anderson, I.M.S., continued for 
several years, while in medical charge of the convict settle¬ 
ment at Port Blair, to send to Calcutta a continuous stream 
of valuable material representing in particular the inverte¬ 
brates and the lower vertebrates. His generosity in this 
direction has been continued recently by Mr. C. G. Rogers, 
Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma, who has also collected 
