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there at any time before or since. Amongst these men were 
Jerdon himself, Ferdinand Stoiiczka,^Francis Day, and Valen¬ 
tine Ball, all of whom have now passed away. Probably at 
no time has so much progress been made in the study of In¬ 
dian Vertebrata as in the years 1864-74, and in this work 
Dr. Anderson took an important part 
The new Indian Museum, which now towers over the 
other buildings of Chowringhee, was not ready for occupation 
till 1875, but meantime Dr. Anderson had been busily en¬ 
gaged in adding to the zoological collections and in getting 
them into order. One of his first tasks was the bringing to¬ 
gether of an ethnological series, for which the conditions of 
Calcutta are favourable. Amongst other important additions 
made by him was that of a fine series of human skulls repre¬ 
senting various Indian races. Another very valuable museum 
series brought together by him consisted of a good collection 
of Indian Chelonia-skeletons, carapaces and stuffed specimens. 
The work in Calcutta was interrupted by two important 
expeditions to Upper Burma and Yunnan, to both of which 
Dr. Anderson was attached as naturalist and medical officer. 
Both expeditions were designed to pass through China to 
Canton or Shanghai, but in neither case was it found practi¬ 
cable to carry out the original plan. The first expedition, 
commanded by Colonel E. B. Sladen, left Calcutta at the end 
of 1867, proceeded as far as Momein in Yunnan, and returned 
to India in November 1868 ; the second, under the command 
of Colonel Horace Browne, left in January 1875, but was 
treacherously attacked by the Chinese before it had proceeded 
more than three marches beyond the Burmese frontier, and 
compelled to return ; Mr. Margery, of the Chinese Consular 
Service, who had been despatched to accompany the mission, 
and who had preceded it by a march, being murdered with 
several of his followers. The difficulties experienced by both 
missions from the time they crossed the frontier between 
Burma and China, and the opposition of the inhabitants of 
the country, seriously interfered with zoological observations, 
and the collection of specimens was generally impossible ; but 
still some important additions were made to the previous 
knowledge of the fauna. A full account of the journey was 
