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The Calcutta Review January 1914

1914

The memorial which was written by Sir Edward Ryan then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and President of the Society impressively set forth the absolute necessity for the foundation and superintendence quite as much for the furtherance Of Science as for the instruction of the Indian fellow subjectof the memorialists of a public depositary of the products of Nature in India and the surro [...] Negotiations which now followed between the Government of India and the Asiatic Society were protracted till the middle of the year 1865 when it was arranged thsit the Society should make over to the Board of Trustees for the proposed Museum the zoological geological and archteolgical collections and the Government should provide suiable accommodation for the Society in the Museum Buili [...] The result of the position thus accidentally held in the past by the Zoological section has been that the research work accomplished by our officers in this department is embodied in the long series of monographs and in the periodical publications issued by the Trustees of the Indian Museum. [...] It is now generally recognized that a Museum is an Institution for the preservation of those.objects which best illustrate the phenomena of Nature and the works of Man and the utilization of these for the increase of knowledge and for the culture and enlightenment of the people. [...] It is bounded on the north-east by Tibet ; as the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 17th March 1890 lays down " the boundary shall he the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the Sikhim Teesta and its affluents from the water flowing into the Tibetan Mochu and northwards into the rivers of Tibet." Bhotan bounds Sikhim on the south-east and on the south lies the British distr
history
Pages
152
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The History of the Indian Museum
1-21 Asutosh Mookerjee view
Bengal’s Poet Laureate
22-30 Anna Macivor view
Some Tours in Sikhim
31-55 W.J. Buchanan view
Specific Infective Disease
56-86 J.M. Macphail view
Vestiges of Old Madras
87-104 C.E. Buckland view
Some Italian Ideals of Culture and Their Influence in England
105-124 J.W. Holme view
A Critical Study of Sankara
125-141 S.S. Suryanarayanan view
Reviews of Books
142-149 unknown view
Acknowledgments
150-152 unknown view

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