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THE late East India Company in their former palace in Leadenhall Street were in possession of a valuable Zoological Museum. It contained specimens in all departments of science, received from the Company's Oriental dominions. These had been contributed by public servants, attached as naturalists to various missions, or had been given by gentlemen of the civil and military services to the Court of Directors. Amongst the contributors to the East India Museum, it will be sufficient to mention the names of Dr. F. Buchanan Hamilton, Dr. Horsfield, Sir T. Stamford Raffles, Col. Sykes, Dr. Wallich, Mr. M'Clelland, Dr. Falconer, Mr. Griffith, and Mr. Hodgson, to prove that the collection was one of no ordinary merit. The Zoological importance of the East: India Company's Museum was further augmented by the preparation and publication by, or under the superintendence of, the late Dr. Horsfield, of several catalogues. Of these may be particularly mentioned that of the Mammalia, published in 1851, and that of the Birds in 1854 and 1858, the second part of which bears likewise the name of Mr. Frederick Moore, then assistant-keeper of the Company's Museum, as joint author, on its title-page.
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S., P. The Late East India Company's Museum—A Zoologists Grievance . Nature 3, 328–329 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003328a0
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