CURATORS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 
Ill 
Blyth had evidently intended, perhaps under pressure 
from important members of the Asiatic Society, to turn his 
attention to the invertebrates, and certain Crustacea in 
spirit still bear labels on which are inscribed in his hand¬ 
writing the names that he intended to give them. It is hoped 
that before long at least one of these manuscript names will 
be published in connection with work now in progress, with 
his original specimens as the types of a new species. 
[The first part of this note is extracted almost verbatim from the in¬ 
troduction to Blyth’s “ Catalogue of the Mammals and Birds of Burma,” 
which formed an extra number of Part II of the “ Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal ” and was published in August, 1875. This introduc¬ 
tion was by A. Grote. A list of Blyth’s published papers will be found 
at the end of it.] 
JOHN ANDERSON,' 
First Superintendent of the Indian Museum, 1865—1886. 
By the death, on August loth, 1900, of Dr. John 
Anderson^ the Society has lost one of its oldest and most dis¬ 
tinguished members, whose connection with the Society dated 
from January, 1865. 
Dr. Anderson was born on the 4th October, 1833, and 
graduated M.D. in the University of Edinburgh in 1861, his 
graduation thesis which was entitled “ Contributions to Zoo¬ 
logy” indicating the natural bent of his mind. 
Before this he had already carried out some successful 
dredging operations off the coast of Scotland, and about this 
tim.e he initiated his long series of zoological publications with 
two papers On an Apparently New Form of Holothuria,'^ 
and On the Anatomy of Sacculina which appeared in the 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 1862. 
After holding the Professorship of Natural Science in the 
Free Church College at Edinburgh for two years, he came to 
Calcutta, where his name is permanently associated, monu- 
mentum aere perennius , with the foundation of the Indian 
Museum, and with the origins of our zoological knowledge of 
Upper Burma and Mergui. 
^ Obituary notice by A. Alcock in Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal for 1901, p. 40. 
