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THE Report of the Zoological Survey of India1—a phœnix which has arisen from the ashes of the old Indian Museum—gives first impressions of a peculiarly felicitous service. Looking cursorily over its pages we see visions of a zoological and ethnographical museum that might have been designed by Socrates for inclusion in Plato's Republic: a museum of which the Guardians are biologists—philosophers——and the fiduciary appanages of which occupy a minor position as Auxiliaries: a museum where the Guardians do not always work within walls and upon what fortune may bring, but have freedom (within the omnipotent tether of the Treasury) to wander where they will in order to study and collect for themselves from the living stream of Nature.
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Zoology in India. Nature 113, 1–3 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113001a0
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