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The Indian Museum 1814-1914

1914

remains nominally under the control of the Trustees and draws its funds-partly through them from the Government of India and partly direct from the Government of Bengal has its officer in charge in the person of the Principal of the Calcutta School of Art a member of tile Bengal Education Service. [...] The memorial which was written by Sir Edward Ryan then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and President of the Society impressively sot forth the absolute necessity for the foitudation and superintendence quite as muoli for the furtherance of Science as for the istruction of the Indian fellow subjects of the memorialists of a public depositary of the products of Nature in India and the -su [...] Negotiations which now followed between the Government of India and the Asiatic Society were protradted till the middle of the year 1806.t when it was arranged that the Society should make over 14 the Board of Trustees for the proposed Museum the zoologcal geological I and archaeological collections and the Government should provide suitable accommodation for the Society in the Museum buildin [...] The members included the Bishop of Calcutta the Vice-Chancelor of the University and the President and three other representatives of the Asiatic Sodiety. [...] The most considerable and possibly the most attractive portion of the specimens still consists of the statues sculptured stones inscriptions and coins collected by the members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal or presented to that Institution by investigators in all parts of the country. before the establishment of the Indian Museum as a separate institution maintained from the public funds.
history
Pages
245
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144369
Segment Pages Author Actions
Praface
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Chapter I. Introduction
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Chapter II. The Anthropological Collections
21-28 unknown view
Chapter III. The Archaeological Section
29-37 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Art Section
38-50 unknown view
Chapter V. The Geological Section
51-60 unknown view
Chapter VI. The Industrial Section
61-67 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Zoological Collections
68-89 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Biological Work of the Marine Survey of India
90-102 unknown view
Chapter IX. Curators and Superintendents
103-122 unknown view
Chapter X. The Museum Buildings
123-ii unknown view
Chapter XI. Guide-Books Catalogue and Lectures
131-136 unknown view
Appendices
i-lxxii unknown view
Index of Personal Names
lxxiii-lxxxii unknown view
General Index
lxxxiii-lxxxvii unknown view

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