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IN Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austin's instructive review of the latest volume in the official “Fauna of India” (NATURE, September 22, p. 106) he rightly lays stress on the importance of preliminary work in the preparation of what are supposed to be authentic handbooks. May I state that on hearing that Mr. Gude's volume was in actual preparation I wrote offering the loan of the material in the Indian Museum, including both the whole of Nevill's type-specimens and the vast accumulation of unnamed material obtained by the Zoological Survey of India in recent years. My offer was ignored or refused, apparently because the volume had to be out by a given date. I make this statement because I find that it is commonly believed that the Zoological Survey of India, of which I have the honour to be director, is in some way responsible for the “Fauna of British India.” This is not the case.
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ANNANDALE, N. Indian Land Mollusca. Nature 108, 180 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108180c0
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