Download or read book A Contribution to the Zo geography of the East Indian Islands Vol 44 Classic Reprint written by Thomas Barbour and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Contribution to the Zoogeography of the East Indian Islands, Vol. 44 During 1906-1907 I visited the East Indies. A short preliminary account of the trip, with notices of some new species, was published in the Bulletin of this Museum (Bull. M. C. Z., 1908, 51, p.313-325). The descriptions of other new species based wholly or in part on the material collected have appeared in the Proceedings of the Biological society of Washington, 190S, 21, p.39-42, 189-190; 1910, 23, p.89-90, p.169-170;1911, 24, p.15-22.The present paper deals more fully with the collections of reptiles and amphibians. Narrative And Itinerary. It is hardly necessary to give more than a brief outline of the early part of the voyage. Bombay was reached November 2, 1906, via Peninsula and OrientalS. S.Co. ships from Brindisi, via Port Said and Aden. A short time was spent in crossing India, visiting the hills about Darjeeling, the Teesta Valley, and the Sunderbans of Lower Bengal. Rangoon was reached by the ship Bharala belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Company. Visits to Mandalay and Bhamo, at the head of navigation on the Irewady River, with short collecting trips to one or two other localities, completed the work done in Burma. Another ship of the same line was taken to Singapore via Penang. In Singapore I was fortunate enough to find a Chinese boy, Ah Woo by name, who became a most faithful servant and a very skillful collector. His slight knowledge of EngUsh, added to a fluency in Malay, made him often helpful as an interpreter, and even at times as a teacher. The Malay language as spoken in the bazaars is not difficult, and a knowledge of sentence formation once gained, proficiency in the language involves only the memorizing of a vocabulary. Work in the East Indies began with collecting for a few days about Batavia, Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, under the direction of E.L. Mark. No.231. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book A Contribution to the Zoogeography of the East Indian Islands written by Thomas Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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