The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
The Fauna of British India (short title) with long titles including The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma,
In the volume on the mammals, Blanford notes:
The need for new and revised descriptive works had, for some years before 1881, been felt and discussed amongst naturalists in India, but the attention of the Government was, I believe, first called to the matter by a memorial dated Sept. 15th of that year, prepared by Mr. P. L. Sclater, the well-known Secretary of the Zoological Society, signed by Mr. Charles Darwin, Sir J. Hooker, Professor Huxley, Sir J. Lubbock, Prof. W. H. Flower, and by Mr. Sclater himself, and presented to the Secretary of State for India. This memorial recommended the preparation of a series of Handbooks of Indian Zoology and my appointment as Editor. It is scarcely necessary to add that to the recommendation of men so highly respected and so well known in the world of Science the publication of the present Fauna of British India is greatly due, and that Mr. Sclater is entitled to the thanks of all interested in the Zoology of India for the important part he took in the transaction. I can only express a hope that the present series as a whole may be worthy of the distinguished support to which, in so great a degree, it owes its origin.
The idea was to cover initially the vertebrates, taking seven volumes, and this was followed by a proposal to cover the invertebrates in about 15 to 20 volumes and projected to cost £11,250 to £15,000. Blanford suggested that restricting it to 14 volumes would make it possible to limit the cost to £10,500.
Protozoa
- Bhatia, B. L. (1936) Vol. I Protozoa:Ciliophora
- Bhatia, B. L. (1938) Vol. II Protozoa: Sporozoa
Coelenterata
- Annandale, Nelson (1911) Freshwater sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa [251 p - 48 figs - 5 pl ]
- Burton M (?) Porifera (Not published)
Nematoda, Cestoda, Oligochaeta, Annelida etc.
- Stephenson, J. (1923) Oligochaeta xxiv + 518 p - 261 figs
- Harding, W. A. & John Percy Moore (1927) Hirudinea xxxviii + 302 p - 63 figs - 8 pl (4 col.) - 1 map
- Southwell, T. (1930) Cestoda. Volume 1. Cestodaria, Bucestoda (excl. Taenioidia)
- Southwell, T. (1930) Cestoda. Volume 2. Taenioidia
- Baylis, H. A. (1936) Nematoda. 1. Ascaroidea and Strongyloidea [408 p - 182 figs ]
- Baylis, H. A. (1939) Nematoda. 2. Filarioidea, Dioctophymoidea and Trichinelloidea [274 p - 150 figs ]
- Fauvel, Pierre (1953) Polychaeta
- Bhalerao, DG (?) Trematoda (this was announced but never published)
Crustacea
Although these volumes were sanctioned, they were never published.[10]
- Nilsson-Cantell, CA (?) Cirripedia
- Chopra BN (?) Brachyura (Oxyrhyncha)
- Seymour Sewell, RB (?) Copepoda (Calanoids)
Echinodermata
- Mortensen, Theodor Echinoidea (This was never produced due to the death of the author. See preface by R B Seymour Sewell in the 1953 Polychaeta volume.)
Mollusca
- Blanford W. T. & Godwin-Austen H. H. 1908. Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae. Taylor & Francis, London. 311 pp.
- Gude G. K. 1914. Mollusca.−II. (Trochomorphidae--Janellidae). xii + 520 pp., 164 figs.
- Gude G. K. 1921. Mollusca.−III. Land operculates (Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae). 386 pp.
- Preston H B 1915. Mollusca. Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda. Taylor & Francis, London, 244 pp., 29 figs.
- Prashad, Baini (?) Mollusca 5. Pelecypoda (not published)
Arachnida
- Pocock, R.I. (1900) Arachnida (Split PDF)
- Sharif M (?) Ticks.
Hemiptera
- Distant, W.L. (1902) Rhynchota 1. Heteroptera. Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Berytidae (See also Index to Rhynchota)
- Distant, W.L. (1904) Rhynchota 2. Heteroptera. Family 4 to 16. (Lygaeidae - Capsidae)
- Distant, W.L. (1906) Rhynchota 3. Heteroptera - Homoptera Heteroptera-family 17 to 24. (Anthoceridae - Coricidae) / Cicadidae, Fulgoridae.
- Distant, W.L. (1907-8) Rhynchota 4. Homoptera: Membracidae, Cercopidae, Jassidae & Heteroptera: Appendix (initially published in two parts)
- Distant, W.L. (1911) Rhynchota 5. Heteroptera: Appendix
- Distant, W.L. (1916) Rhynchota 6. Homoptera. Appendix
- Distant, W.L. (1918) Rhynchota 7. Homoptera:Appendix to Jassidae, Heteroptera:Addenda
Dermaptera
- Burr, M. (1910) Dermaptera (Earwigs) [217 p - 10 pl]
Odonata
- Fraser, F.C. (1933) Odonata. 1 Introduction, Coenagriidae 423 p
- Fraser, F.C. (1934) Odonata. 2 Agriidae, Gomphidae 398 p - 120 figs - 4 col. pl.
- Fraser, F.C. (1936) Odonata. 3 Cordulegasteridae, Aeshnidae, Libellulidae. 461 p.
Orthoptera
- Kirby, WF (1914) Acridiidae
- Second edition
- Uvarov, BP (?) Acridiidae
- Chopard L. (1969) The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries. Orthoptera. Vol.2: Grylloidea. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press.
- Henry G M (?) Tettigoniidae
Blattaria
- Shelford, R. Blattidae (sanctioned but not published)[11]
Coleoptera
- Andrewes, H. (1929) Carabidae 1. Carabinae [ 431 p - 62 figs - 9 pl (1 col) ]
- Andrewes, H. (1935) Carabidae 2. Harpalinae [ 323 p - 51 figs - 5 pl ]
- Arrow, G.J. (1910) Lamellicornia 1. Cetoniinae and Dynastinae [xiv + 322 p - 76 figs - 2 col. pl. ]
- Arrow, G.J. (1917) Lamellicornia 2. Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, Euchirinae [xiii + 387 p - 77 figs - 5 pl (1 col.)]
- Arrow, G.J. (1931) Lamellicornia 3. Coprinae [428 p - 61 figs - 13 pl (1 col.) - 1 map ]
- Arrow, G.J. (1949) Lamellicornia 4. Lucanidae & Passalidae[vii + 274 pp., 23 pl]
- Arrow, G.J. (1925) Clavicornia : Erotylidae, Languriidae & Endomychidae [xv + 416 p - 76 figs - 1 col. pl. - 1 map]
- Beeson, C.F.C. (?) Platypodidae ()
- Browne, J Balfour (never published) Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae and Haliplidae
- Cameron, M. (1930) Staphylinidae 1. (Micropeplinae, Oxytelinae, Oxyporinae, Megalopinae, Steninae, Enaesthetinae) [471 p - 134 figs - 1 map - 3 col. plates]
- Cameron, M. (1934) Staphylinidae. 2. (Paederinae) 257 p - 2 col. pl.
- Cameron, M. (1932) Staphylinidae 3. (Staphylininae, Trichophyinae, Termitodiscinae, Pygosteninae, Tachyporinae) 443 p - 4 col. pl.
- Cameron, M. (1939) Staphylinidae 4. Part 1. Subfam. Pseudopernthinae and Aleocharinae (part)
- Cameron, M. (1939) Staphylindae 4. Part 2. Aleocharinae.
- Fowler, W. (1912) Coleoptera. General introduction and Cicindelidae to Paussidae xx + 529 p - 240 figs
- Gahan, C. (1906) Coleoptera. Cerambycidae 329 p -107 figs
- Jacoby, Martin & others (1908–1936) Chrysomelidae Volumes 1-4. (Jacoby died before the first volume was published. See preface to the first volume by C T Bingham)
- Jacoby, M. (1908) Chrysomelidae 1. Eupodes, Camptosomes, Cyclica 534 p - 172 figs - 2 pl
- Maulik, S. (1919) Chrysomelidae Volume 2 Hispinae and Cassidinae xi + 439 p - 130 figs
- Maulik, S. (1926) Chrysomelidae Volume 3. Chrysomelinae and Halticinae 442 p - 139 figs - 1 map
- Maulik, S.(1936) Chrysomelidae Volume 4. Galerucinae 648 p - 144 fig - 1 map - 1 pl - hbk
- Marshall, Guy A.K. (1916) Rhynchophora, Curculionidae 367 p - 108 figs
- Sanctioned but not published
- Beeson CFC Scolytidae
- Beeson CFC Platypodidae
- Stebbing, E.P. Buprestidae[11]
Diptera
- Brunetti, E. (1912) Diptera : Nematocera excluding Chironomidae & Culicidae581 p
- Brunetti, E. (1920) Diptera 2. Brachycera Volume 1 (Stratiomyiidae, Leptidae, Nemestinidae, Cyrtidae, Bombyliidae, Therevidae, Scenopinidae, Mydaidae, Empidae, Lonchopteridae, Platypezidae) 401 p.
- Brunetti, E. (1923) Diptera 3. Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Conopidae, Oestridae [424 p - 83 fig - 5 pl]
- Christophers, S.R. (1933) Diptera Volume 4. Culicidae tribe Anophelini
- Barraud, P.J. (1934) Diptera Volume 5. (Culicidae) tribes Megarhinini & Culicini
- R Senior-White, Daphne Aubertin & John Smart (1940) Diptera Volume 6. Calliphoridae
- Hobby, BM (?) Diptera Volume 7. Asilidae
- Oldroyd, H (?) Tabanidae
- van Emden, F I - Muscidae Diptera Volume 7. Part 1 Published 1966 in The Fauna of India - Part 2 was planned but never published.
Aphaniptera
- Sharif, M (?) Fleas.
Hymenoptera
- Bingham, C.T. (1897) Hymenoptera. Vol. 1. Wasps and bees xxix + 579 pp.
- Bingham, C. T. (1903) Hymenoptera, Vol. 2. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps 506 pp.
- Morley, C. (1913) Hymenoptera Vol. 3. Ichneumones Deltoidei 531 p - 152 fig - 1 pl
Lepidoptera
- Bingham, C. T. (1905) Butterflies Vol. 1 - Family Nymphalidae
- Bingham, C. T. (1907) Butterflies Vol. 2 - Families Papilionidae, Pieridae and Lycaenidae
- George Francis Hampson& others (1892–1937) Moths. 5 volumes
- Hampson, G. (1892) Moths 1. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig
- Hampson, G. (1894) Moths 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs
- Hampson, G. (1895) Moths 3. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae 546 p - 226 figs
- Hampson, G. (1896) Moths 4. Pyralidae 594 p - 287 figs
- Bell TRD & F B Scott (1937) Moths. Vol. 5. Sphingidae [537 p - 1 folding map - 15 pl]
- Second edition
- Papilionidae, Pieridae, xxix + 600 p - 184 figs - 1 folding map - 3 col. pl.
- Talbot, G. (1947) Butterflies. Vol. 2 Danaidae, Satyridae, Amathusiidae and Acraeidae. xv + 506 p - 104 figs - 2 col. pl.
Reptilia and Amphibia
- Günther, A.C.L.G. (1864) Reptiles of British India [1]. xxvii + 452 p - 26 pl (Not part of the Fauna of British India series, but included here for completeness)
- Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Reptilia and Batrachia xviii + 541 p - 142 figs
- Second edition
- Smith, M. A. (1931–1943) Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 Volumes. (Volume 4 was to cover Amphibia).
- Smith, M. A. (1931) Reptilia and Amphibia 1: Loricata and Testudines xviii + 185 p - 42 figs - 2 pl
- Smith, M. A. (1935) Reptilia and Amphibia 2: Sauria xiii + 440 p - 93 figs - 1 pl - 2 maps
- Smith, M. A. (1943) Reptilia and Amphibia 3: Serpentes xii + 583 p - 166 figs
Fishes
- Day, Francis (July 11, 1889) Fishes Volume I Chondropterygii, Teleoste (Physostomi; Acanthopterygii: Percidae)
- Day, Francis (September 21, 1889) Fishes Volume II Teleostei (Acanthopterygii excl. Percidae; Anacanthini; Lophobranchii; Plectognathi), Leptocardii
- Second edition
- Hora, SL (?) (projected to be published in 5 volumes in 1953 but not published)
Birds
- Oates, E. W. (Blanford, W. T., editor) (1889) Birds. 1 [582 p]
- Oates, E. W. (1890) Birds. 2 [424 p]
- Blanford, W. T. (1895) Birds. 3 [450 p - 102 figs]
- Blanford, W. T. (1898) Birds. 4 [500 p - 127 figs]
- Second edition
- Baker, Stuart (1922) Birds. 1 524 p
- Baker, Stuart (1924) Birds. 2 606 p - 86 figs
- Baker, Stuart (1926) Birds. 3 534 p
- Baker, Stuart (1927) Birds. 4 471 p - 71 figs
- Baker, Stuart (1928) Birds. 5 469 p - 49 figs
- Baker, Stuart (1929) Birds. 6 548 p
- Baker, Stuart (1930) Birds. 7 484 p (Synonymical catalogue Passeres-Grallae)
- Baker, Stuart (1930) Birds. 8. 326 p (Synonymical catalogue Grallae - Pygopodes; Corrigenda and Addenda)
Mammals
- Blanford, WT (1888, 1891) Mammalia
- Part 1 Primates, Carnivora, Insectivora
- Part 2 Chiroptera, Rodentia, Ungulata, Cetacea, Sirenia, Edentata
- Second edition
- Pocock, R.I. (1939) Mammalia. I. Primates and Carnivora
- Pocock, R.I. (1941) Mammalia. II. Carnivora :Aeluroidea, Arctoidea
- Ellerman, J.R, Roonwal, M.L. (ed.) (1961) Mammalia. III. Rodentia
References
- ^ Talbot, G (1947) Butterflies Volume 2 issued in December 1947 includes a slip noting that the title should now read "...including Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma"
- ^ Kinnear, N.B. (1951). "The history of Indian mammalogy and ornithology. Part I. Mammals". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 50: 766–778.
- ^ Kinnear, N.B. (1952). "The history of Indian mammalogy and ornithology. Part II. Birds". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 51 (1): 104–110.
- ^ National Archives of India 1882 File:PR_000003043912 15 September 1881
- ^ National Archive of India PR_000003044449 1890 - Proposal of Mr W.T.Blanford for the publication of a second series of the "Fauna of British India" No. 74. India Office, London 21st November 1889
- ^ National Archives of India 1922 File:PR_000003005771 September 1922 Proposal to transfer the publication of the Fauna of British India Series to India. Nelson Annandale.
- ^ Prashad, Baini (1933). "Obituary. Lt.-Col. John Stephenson, IMS, CIE, FRS" (PDF). Current Science. 1: 270–271.
- ^ Baker, ECS (1928). Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 5 (2 ed.). Taylor and Francis, London. p. iii.
- ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ Sewell, RB Seymour (1953) Preface to the Fauna of India. Polychaeta
- ^ a b Lefroy, HM (1910) Review. Fauna of British India. Burr, H.M. JBNHS 20:203-204