Contents: Introduction. I. Order Monotremata: 1. Family Tachyglossidae: 1. Family Ornthorhynchidae. II. Order Marsupialia: 1 Family Vombatidae. 2. Family Didelphidae. 3. Family Phalangeridae. 4. Family Macropodidae. III. Order Insectivora:1. Family Soricidae. 2. Family Erinaceidae. IV. Order Scandentia. 1. Family Tupaiidae. V. Order Edentata: 1. Family Dasypodidae. 2. Family Myrmecophagidae. 3. Family Bradypodidae. VI. Order Chiroptera: 1. Family Pteropodidae. VII. Order Pholidota: 1 Family Manidae. VIII. Order Carnivora: 1. Family Ursidae. 2.Family Viverridae. 3. Family Canidae. 4. Family Herpestidae. 5. Family Mustelidae. 6. Family Felidae. 7. Family Procyonidae. 8. Family Hyaenidae. 9. Family Phocidae. 10. Family Otariidae. 11. Family Odobenidae. IX. Order Perissodactyla: 1. Family Rhinocerotidae. 2. Family Tapiridae. 3. Family Equidae. X. Order Artiodactyla: 1. Family Cervidae. 2. Family Tragulidae. 3. Family Camelidae. 4. Family Bovidae. 5. Family Suidae. 6. Family Hippopotamidae. 7. Family Giraffidae. XI. Order Primates: 1 Family Lorisidae. 2. Family Galagidae. 3. Family Lemuridae. 4. Family Daubentonidae. 5. Family Cercopithecidae. 6. Family Hylobatidae. 7. Family Pongidae. 8. Family Hominidae. 9. Family Cebidae. 10. Family Callithricidae.XII. Order Proboscidea: 1. Family Elephantidae.XIII. Order Rodentia: 1. Family Hydrochaeridae. 2. Family Myocastoridae. 3. Family Rhizomyidae. 4. Family Sciuridae. 5. Family Hystricidae. 6. Family Muridae. XIV. Order Lagomorpha: 1. Family Leporidae. XV. Order Sirenia: 1. Family Dugongidae. XVI. Order Cetacea: 1. Family Platanistidae. 2. Family Delphinidae. 3. Family Phocaenidae. 4. Family Balaenopteridae. 5. Family Monodontidae. Literature cited. Glossary.
From the Introduction : "The Indian museum was established in the year 1814, but zoological galleries were set up later, in the year 1878. Since then, only one catalogue on total mammalian collections was published in two volumes by Anderson(1881) and Sclater (1891). With the establishment of the zoological survey of India in the year 1916, the zoological galleries along with the displayed and reserve collections, came under the supervision of the survey.
The sources of collection of the exhibits are various. Some of the mammal specimens were originally the property of the Asiatic Society of Bengal which was established in the year 1784 by Sir William Jones. Blyth (1863) published a catalogue dealing with the collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Those mammalian collections were later handed over to the Indian museum. So, the gallery is enriched with century old exhibits also.
Private donors, too numerous to mention, also contributed substantial collections. Collections of W.Rutledge, C.J.T. Llyod, A.R.S. Andersons, H.P. Vieree, Thakur Jaswant Singh, E. Blyth, etc., specially enriched the gallery. In the recent period, the main sources of collection are from Kolkata Zoological Garden and zoological Survey of India.
The collection is also enriched with invaluable specimens, collected during different expeditions viz., Yunnan expedition in 1868 and 1875, northern and eastern frontier expedition in 1870, Pamir boundary commission in 1896, Lhasa expedition in 1903, Abor expedition in 1911 etc."
