Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator
Subtitle: under the command of Commander A. Carpenter, R.N., D.S.O., and of Commander R.F. Hoskyns, R.N. ...
Contributors: Annandale, Nelson, 1876-1924; Stewart, F. H., surgeon-naturalist to the Indian Marine Survey; Indian Museum; India. Marine Survey
Publisher: Published under the authority of the Director of the Royal Indian Marine; Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Calcutta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Investigator (Marine survey ship); Mollusks; Crustacea; Fishes; Zoology; Echinodermata
Other titles: Illustrations of the zoology of the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator
Notes: Edited under the direction of A. Alcock.

Issued in 9 numbered parts, each containing more than one subject, to which a 10th part (completing the Mollusca plates) was added.

Six of the parts have special t.p.'s, with publication dates ranging from 1892 to 1909.

The main sections include: Echinoderma, 5 pls., 1894-1895; Crustacea, 79 pls., 1892-1908; Entomostraca, 5 pls., 1892-1908; Mollusca, 23 pls., 1897-1909; and Fishes, 43 pls., 1892-1908.

The text portion consists of 6 t.p.'s, [310] p. of letterpress description on tissue guard sheets interleaved with the plates, and a 4 p. "Index to the illustrations of the zoology of the R.I.M.S. Investigator, 1892-1900."

Title and imprint vary slightly, with other commanders or supervisors named: C.F. Oldham, J. Hext, J. Wood-Mason, A.R.S. Anderson, W.G. Beauchamp, N. Annandale, F.H. Stewart, and W. Lumsden.

Fuller descriptions of the specimens were published as separate reports by the Indian Museum, Calcutta; some reports also appeared in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and in the Annals and magazine of natural history.

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SCNHRB has the Mollusca section only, edited by N. Annandale and F.H. Stewart (23 plates bound in 1 v.; barcode no. 39088008690109); the t.p. for the final part ("Mollusca, part VI, pls. XXI-XXIII") has been bound in at front.

The SCNHRB copy of Mollusca has a later full linen binding with typed green paper spine label, in a later portfolio. Some leaves have been repaired.

The SCNHRB copy of Mollusca has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of M.G. Harasewych.