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THE Zoological Survey of India was founded in 1916. It derived from the Zoological Section of the Indian Museum. The latter was a descendant of the zoological portion of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Annandale, a first-class naturalist and an authority on freshwater faunas, was the first director of the Survey. He had distinguished successors in Kemp, Sewell, and Prashad, and, when the last-named was lately called to be adviser,on fisheries to the Government of India, in Dr. B. N. Chopra, the present acting director. Other members of the Survey who have achieved a high reputation are Dr. S. L. Hora, who for the past few years has been director of fisheries in the Province of Bengal, and Dr. H. S. Pruthi, recently selected to be director of the new Plant Pest Protection Bureau. From the beginning, however, the staff was small, and unhappily retrenchment in the early nineteen-thirties so much reduced it that the Survey was forced almost to abandon field work and to restrict itself to museum activities, thus cutting out its main purpose, namely, the animal survey of India. Indeed, the staff then became so small that even the proper care of the large and valuable collections became difficult.
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FOX, H. The Zoological Survey of India. Nature 159, 865–866 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159865a0
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