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ALTHOUGH much valuable information regarding the two most interesting groups of islands in the Bay of Bengal, known from very early times as the Andamans and Nicobars, has been published in Indian official reports and in scientific papers by officials of the islands, or by visitors to them, there is, so far as we know, no general connected monograph of them. The present volume will be welcomed, therefore, as containing an account of a three months' cruise among them, undertaken, in 1901, by the author's companion and host, Dr. W. L. Abbott, owner of the American schooner yacht Terrapin, of Singapore, to obtain collections of natural History, especially small mammals and ethnological objects, for the National Museum, Washington, U.S.A. It is well illustrated with photographs by the author, two maps and a hydrographical chart. We note that many of the ethnological portraits have been taken in full sunshine, and are disfigured by heavy, black shadows. Better results would have been obtained by photographing the subjects in the shade against a dark background, giving full exposure.
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W., J. The Andamans and Nicobars 1 . Nature 67, 514–515 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067514a0
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