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records of the East India Company, preserved in the library 
of the India Office, and was published in 1889 in a separate 
volume, entitled English Intercourse with Siam.” The 
book forms a well-written and interesting chapter of the his¬ 
tory of British progress in Southern Asia. 
Besides the w^orks already mentioned and many papers, 
descriptive of mammalia and reptiles, which were published in 
the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and in the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Dr. Anderson 
wrote two catalogues on very different subjects for the 
museum under his charge in Calcutta. Of these, one was the 
first part of the “ Catalogue of Mammals,” published in 1881, 
the other the “ Catalogue and Handbook'of the Archaeo¬ 
logical Collection ” which appeared in 1883. 
Dr. Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 
in 1879, and retired from the Indian Service in 1886. He 
had married a few years previously, and after retiring he 
travelled with his wife to Japan. Finally he settled in Lon¬ 
don, but for the remainder of his life his health was somewhat 
precarious, and he passed several winters in Egypt. Here he 
took up the study of the mammals and the reptiles, which 
had received but scant attention since the early part of the 
century, when the great and superbly illustrated French work 
on Egypt appeared—a work which, brilliantly begun by 
Savigny and others, was never adequately completed. 
To the work of collecting, examining, figuring and des¬ 
cribing the Mammalia, Reptilia and Batrachia of Egypt, the 
later part of Dr. Anderson’s life, when he was well enough for 
work, was mainly devoted. He also paid some attention to 
the fauna of the neighbouring countries, and in 1898 pub¬ 
lished A Contribution to the Herpetology of ^Arabia,” 
founded on the collections of the late Mr. J. T. Bent and 
othei’s. The first part of the important work he had intended 
to produce on the zoology of Egypt, containing an account of 
the physical features of the country and descriptions of Rep¬ 
tilia and Batrachia, appeared in 1898. It is a fine quarto 
volume with excellent figures, many of them coloured. He 
had made large collections and notes for the volume on Mam¬ 
malia, and these it is hoped will be published in due course. 
