. Catalogue of the Indian decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian museum ... Decapoda (Crustacea). Phefack. The Catalogue of [udian Decapod Crustacea, of which this is the first instal- ment, occnpied in its early preparatory stages inucli of the attention of my predecessor Mr. James Wood-Mason, and has in execution taken up the greater jiart of my own time, particularly in leisure honrs, during the last eight years. At the outset T looked foi'ward to signalizing on the title-page my late frientl's connexion with this undertaking; but 1 now Hnd it necessary to take the entire respons
. Catalogue of the Indian decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian museum ... Decapoda (Crustacea). Phefack. The Catalogue of [udian Decapod Crustacea, of which this is the first instal- ment, occnpied in its early preparatory stages inucli of the attention of my predecessor Mr. James Wood-Mason, and has in execution taken up the greater jiart of my own time, particularly in leisure honrs, during the last eight years. At the outset T looked foi'ward to signalizing on the title-page my late frientl's connexion with this undertaking; but 1 now Hnd it necessary to take the entire responsibility of the work as it stands, and to state that the idea of codifying oin- knowledge of Indian carcinology originated many years ago Avith Wood-Mason, and that by collecting and commencing to index all the classical literature of the subject, by sorting into great-groups that part of the Museum collection of Ci'ustacea tliat was made independently of the Survey Ship " Investigator," by gradually ac(|uiring a considerable nnnil)er of authentically-named species of Crustacea, and by provisionally naming a good uiany Tndo-Pacific species himself, Wood-Mason had gone no inconsiderable way towards eariying his idea into effect. It is pi-0]»osed to issue the ('ataloguc in three collateral and iiulependent series, one for the llraehijiira, anotluM' for the Marriiru, :ind a third for the AitoTihiira. —I. iisr THE INDIAN MUSEUM A. , Major, , Sn'iierinh'ndcnt of tlir Indian Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Indian Museum; Alcock, A. (Alfred), 1859-1933. Calcutta, Printed by order of the trustees of the Indian museum
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