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tive catalogues with numerous plates that the zoological work 
of the Museum is best represented. Many of these illustrate 
the biological work of the ^ Investigator,’ and are referred to 
in chapter viii at greater length than is necessary here, but 
others deal with land animals, as for example, Mr. W. L. 
Distant’s Monograph of Oriental Cicadidae”. Indeed the 
bulk of all taxonomic work undertaken in a museum must 
consist very largely of what are in effect descriptive cata¬ 
logues of a more or less elaborate kind. 
In archaeology we have not only Dr. Anderson’s account 
of the sculptures in the archaeological galleries, but also a 
series of descriptive catalogues of coins. The earliest was that 
prepared by the late Mr. C. J. Rodgers in 1894-6, while the 
more sumptuous volumes dealing with the conjoined cabinets 
of the Museum and the Asiatic Society of Bengal and written 
recently by Mr. Vincent Smith and Mr. Nelson Wright are 
fine instances of modern numismatic research. 
For details as to all these publications the reader should 
consult the last appendix to this volume. 
Apart from publications issued by the Trustees, those of 
the Geological Survey of India include several catalogues 
named as such, for example Lydekker’s ‘ ‘ Catalogue of the 
Remains of Sivalik vertebrates” ; while the different series 
of ‘^ Palaeontologia Indica ” practically form elaborate des¬ 
criptive catalogues of fossils in the Geological Section of the 
Museum. 
In the Industrial Section cataloguing is represented by 
certain numbers of the Agricultural Ledger, which was 
formerly issued by the Reporter on Economic Products to 
the Government of India. This publication consists of 
several different series of pamphlets, some of which are actual 
catalogues of economic specimens in the Museum, while one 
refers to a series now among the anthropological collections, 
viz. Mr. I. H. Burkill’s paper on Indian pens (Agricultural 
Ledger, 1908-09—No. 6 : Vegetable Product Series, No. III). 
The paper is also in a sense a guide-book to the exhibit of 
pens in the ethnological gallery . 
The latest function assumed by the Indian Museum is 
