Dawn of Modern Marine Science in India : Collection of Papers on Natural History/edited by Jyotirmoy Dutta. Kolkata, The Asiatic Society, 2001, 599 p., $66. ISBN 81-7326-106-8.
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. Marine Zoology: 1. On the structure and habits of Cyrotophium calamicola, a new Tubicolous Amphipod from Bay of Bengal/G.M. Giles. 2. Description of a new species of the Amphipod Genus Melita from Bay of Bengal/G.M. Giles. 3. On six new Amphipods from the Bay of Bengal/G.M. Giles. 4. Further notes on the Amphipoda of Indian water/G.M. Giles. 5. Descriptions of seven additional new Indian Amphipods/G.M. Giles. 6. Description of a new species of Crustacea belonging to the Brachyurous Family Raninidae/J. Wood-Mason. 7. Description of new species of the Brachyurous Genus Lyreidus from the Depths of the Andaman Sea/J. Wood-Mason. 8. List of the Pleuronectidae obtained in the Bay of Bengal in 1888 and 1889, with descriptions of new and rare species/A. Alcock. 9. Descriptions of some new and rare species of fish from the Bay of Bengal, obtained during the season of 1888-89/A. Alcock. 10. Observations on the gestation of some sharks and rays/A. Alcock. 11. An account of the Deep Sea collection made during the season of 1892-93/A. Alcock. 12. An account of a recent collection of Bathybial fishes form the Bay of Bengal/A. Alcock. 13. A new Brachiopod/A. Alcock. 14. On some new and rare corals from the Deep waters of India/A. Alcock. 15. A supplementary list of the Marine Fishes of India, with descriptions of 2 new Genera and 8 new species/A. Alcock. 16. On some notable new and rare species of Crustacea/A. Alcock. 17. An account of a recent collection of Deep Sea Crustaceae from the Bay of Bengal and Laccadive Sea/A. Alcock and A.R. Anderson. 18. List of shore and shallow water Brachyura collected during the season 1893-1894/A. Alcock and A.R. Anderson. 19. Notes on sound produced by the Ocypode crab, Ocypoda ceratophthalama/A.R. Anderson. 20. On the echinoidea collected during the season 1893-94/A.R. Anderson. 21. An account of the Deep Sea Crustaceae collected during the season 1894-95/A.R. Anderson. 22. List of Deep Sea Holothurians collected during the seasons 1887 to 1891/J.H. Tull Walsh. 23. Report on the paguridae collected during the season 1893-94/J.R. Henderson. 24. Notes on the biological works of the R.I.M.S.S. investigator during survey seasons, 1910-11 and 1911-12/R.B. Seymour Sewell. II. Plants from coasts and Islands: 25. On the Prothallus of Padina pavonia/G.M. Giles. 26. A list of Diamond Island plants/D. Prain. 27. The non-indigenous species of the Andaman Flora/D. Prain. 28. The vegetation of the Coco group/D. Prain. III. Marine hydrology and geology: 29. On some Nodular stones obtained by trawling off Colombo in 675 Fathoms of water/E.J. Jones. 30. The mean temperature of the deep waters of the Bay of Bengal : A. Carpenter: i. The topography of the Arabian Sea in the neighbourhood of Laccdives. ii. The physical features of some of the Laccdive Islands, with suggestions as to their mode of formation/C.F. Oldham. IV. Biographical sketches and bibliographical sources: 1. Biographical sketches of the authors. 2. Select bibliographical sources.