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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
given in Dr. Anderson’s reports and in a work by him, 
entitled “Mandalay to, Momein,” published in 1870. The 
detailed observations on zoology, supplemented by impor¬ 
tant notes on some Indian and Burmese mammals and chelo- 
nians, were published in 1878-79^ under the title of “Anatomi¬ 
cal and Zoological Researches, comprising an Account of 
the Zoological Results of two Expeditions to Western Yunnan 
in 1868 and 1875, and a Monograph of the two Cetacean 
Genera, Platanista and Orcella.” The work appeared in 
two quarto volumes, one consisting of plates. Dr. Anderson 
was the first who succeeded in obtaining specimens of the 
porpoise (Orcella) inhabiting the Irrawaddi, and the examina¬ 
tion of this previously undescribed form ^ led him to make a 
thorough anatomical investigation of an allied species occur¬ 
ring in the Bay of Bengal and in the estuaries of rivers flow¬ 
ing into the Bay, and also of the remarkable cetacean, 
Platanista, inhabiting the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus. 
The only other important collecting expedition under¬ 
taken by Dr. Anderson during his tenure of the superinten- 
dentship of the Indian Museum was to Tenasserim and the 
Mergui Archipelago in 1881-82. This journey was chiefly, 
though by no means exclusively, undertaken for the collection 
of marine animals, and the descriptions of the results, to 
which several naturalists contributed, were published first in 
the Journal of the Linnean Society, and subsequently as a 
separate reprint in two volumes, under the title of Contri¬ 
butions to the Fauna of Mergui and its Archipelago.” This 
appeared in 1889. Dr. Anderson’s share was the description 
of the Vertebrata and an account of the Selungs—a curious 
tribe inhabiting some of the islands ; but in connection with 
his visit to Mergui, and as part of a general description of the 
fauna which he had at first proposed to publish, he prepared 
an account of the history of Tenasserim, formerly belonging 
to Siam. This historical resume, which deals especially with 
British commercial and political intercourse with Siamese and 
Burmese ports, was compiled mainly from the manuscript 
1 It is now generally thought to be identical with 0. hrevirostris of the 
B. of Bengal and the Ganges,— Ed. 
