{{Short description|Scientific books series}} {{Italic title}} '''''The Fauna of British India''''' (short title) with long titles including '''''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''''',<ref>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"</ref> and '''''The Fauna of British India Including the Remainder of the Oriental Region'''''<!-- as in volume 6 of Diptera, just another reason why short titles should be preferred--> is a series of scientific books that was published by the British government in India and printed by Taylor and Francis of London. The series was started sometime in 1881 after a letter had been sent to the Secretary of State for India signed by Charles Darwin, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and other "eminent men of science" forwarded by P.L.Sclater to R.H. Hobart.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kinnear, N.B.|author-link=Norman Boyd Kinnear| year=1951|title= The history of Indian mammalogy and ornithology. Part I. Mammals.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume=50|pages=766–778|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48057417}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Kinnear, N.B. |year=1952| title=The history of Indian mammalogy and ornithology. Part II. Birds.|journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 51|issue=1|pages=104–110|url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48202138}}</ref><ref>[http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2730214 National Archives of India 1882 File:PR_000003043912 15 September 1881]</ref> W. T. Blanford was appointed editor and began work on the volume on mammals. [[Image:WTBlanford.jpg|thumb|upright|W. T. Blanford (1832–1905)]] In the volume on the mammals, Blanford notes: {{cquote|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.<ref>[http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2727648 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]</ref> After Blanford's death, Arthur Everett Shipley became the editor. The first series was followed by a second edition of some of the volumes such as the mammals, birds, reptiles and butterflies. In 1922–23, Nelson Annandale sought to move the process of preparation of the books and its publication to India.<ref>[http://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2738954 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.]</ref> The second edition is sometimes called the "new fauna". There were changes incorporated in this that included for instance the usage of trinomials for the birds. Following Shipley's death in 1927, Lieutenant Colonel John Stephenson, formerly of the Indian Medical Service was appointed editor in May 1928.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary. Lt.-Col. John Stephenson, IMS, CIE, FRS|journal=Current Science|pages=270–271|year=1933 |url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_001_09_0270_0271_0.pdf|author=Prashad, Baini|volume=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Baker, ECS|year=1928|url=https://archive.org/stream/BakerFbiBirds5/BakerFBI5#page/n3/mode/1up|page=iii|title=Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 5|edition=2|publisher=Taylor and Francis, London}}</ref> Publication was stopped during the Second World War.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1940|title=Future of Zoology in India|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=145|issue=3666|pages=163|doi=10.1038/145163a0|bibcode=1940Natur.145..163. |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free}}</ref> After Indian Independence in 1947 a few volumes were published under the new name of '''Fauna of India''' but some of the volumes that were under preparation were never published. The 1953 volume on polychaetes by Pierre Fauvel was published by the Indian Press from Allahabad.
==Protozoa== thumb|List of publications in the series in 1914. Average of £1 for each volume * Bhatia, B. L. (1936) [https://archive.org/details/protozo01bhat Vol. I Protozoa:Ciliophora] * Bhatia, B. L. (1938) [https://archive.org/details/protozoa02bhat Vol. II Protozoa: Sporozoa]
==Coelenterata== * Annandale, Nelson (1911) [https://archive.org/details/freshwatersponge00anna Freshwater sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa] [251 p - 48 figs - 5 pl ] * Burton M (?) Porifera (Not published)
==Nematoda, Cestoda, Oligochaeta, Annelida etc.== * Stephenson, J. (1923) [https://archive.org/details/FBIOligochaeta Oligochaeta] xxiv + 518 p - 261 figs * Harding, W. A. & John Percy Moore (1927) [https://archive.org/details/FBIHirudinea Hirudinea] xxxviii + 302 p - 63 figs - 8 pl (4 col.) - 1 map * Southwell, T. (1930) [https://www.archive.org/details/FBICestoda1 Cestoda. Volume 1. Cestodaria, Bucestoda (excl. Taenioidia)] * Southwell, T. (1930) [https://www.archive.org/details/FBICestoda2 Cestoda. Volume 2. Taenioidia] * Baylis, H. A. (1936) [https://www.archive.org/details/BaylisNematoda1 Nematoda. 1. Ascaroidea and Strongyloidea] [408 p - 182 figs ] * Baylis, H. A. (1939) [https://archive.org/details/BaylisNematoda2 Nematoda. 2. Filarioidea, Dioctophymoidea and Trichinelloidea] [274 p - 150 figs ] * Fauvel, Pierre (1953) [https://www.archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta Polychaeta] * Bhalerao, DG (?) Trematoda (this was announced but never published)
==Crustacea== Although these volumes were sanctioned, they were never published.<ref>Sewell, RB Seymour (1953) Preface to the Fauna of India. Polychaeta</ref> * 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. [https://archive.org/details/molluscatestacel00blaniala ''Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae'']. Taylor & Francis, London. 311 pp. * Gude G. K. 1914. [https://archive.org/details/molluscaiitrocho00gude ''Mollusca.−II. (Trochomorphidae--Janellidae)'']. xii + 520 pp., 164 figs. * Gude G. K. 1921. [https://archive.org/details/molluscaiiilando00gude ''Mollusca.−III. Land operculates (Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae)'']. 386 pp. * Preston H B 1915. [https://archive.org/details/molluscafreshwat00presrich ''Mollusca. Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda.''] Taylor & Francis, London, 244 pp., 29 figs. * Prashad, Baini (?) Mollusca 5. Pelecypoda (not published)
==Arachnida== * Pocock, R.I. (1900) [https://archive.org/details/arachnida00poco Arachnida] ([http://www.ub.ntnu.no/scorpion-files/pocock_fauna_india.php Split PDF]) * Sharif M (?) Ticks.
==Hemiptera== * Distant, W.L. (1902) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota01dist Rhynchota 1. Heteroptera. Pentatomidae, Coreidae, Berytidae] (See also [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/9193 Index to Rhynchota]) * Distant, W.L. (1904) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota02dist Rhynchota 2.] Heteroptera. Family 4 to 16. (Lygaeidae - Capsidae) * Distant, W.L. (1906) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota03dist Rhynchota 3.] Heteroptera - Homoptera Heteroptera-family 17 to 24. (Anthoceridae - Coricidae) / Cicadidae, Fulgoridae. * Distant, W.L. (1907–8) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota04dist Rhynchota 4.] Homoptera: Membracidae, Cercopidae, Jassidae & Heteroptera: Appendix (initially published in two parts) * Distant, W.L. (1911) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota05distiala Rhynchota 5.] Heteroptera: Appendix * Distant, W.L. (1916) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota06dist Rhynchota 6.] Homoptera. Appendix * Distant, W.L. (1918) [https://archive.org/details/rhynchota07dist Rhynchota 7.] Homoptera:Appendix to Jassidae, Heteroptera:Addenda
==Dermaptera== * Burr, M. (1910) [https://archive.org/details/dermapteraearwig00burr Dermaptera] (Earwigs) [217 p - 10 pl]
==Odonata== * Fraser, F.C. (1933) [https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata1 Odonata. 1] Introduction, Coenagriidae 423 p * Fraser, F.C. (1934) [https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata2 Odonata. 2] Agriidae, Gomphidae 398 p - 120 figs - 4 col. pl. * Fraser, F.C. (1936) [https://archive.org/details/FraserOdonata3 Odonata. 3] Cordulegasteridae, Aeshnidae, Libellulidae. 461 p.
==Orthoptera== * Kirby, WF (1914) [https://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirb Acridiidae] ;Second edition * Uvarov, BP (?) Acridiidae * Chopard L. (1969) [https://archive.org/details/IndianGrylloidea 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)<ref name=lefroy>Lefroy, HM (1910) [https://archive.org/stream/journalofbombayn20191011bomb#page/203/mode/1up/ Review. Fauna of British India. Burr, H.M.] JBNHS 20:203-204</ref>
==Coleoptera== thumb|List of publications from 1936. Prices listed in Rupees * Andrewes, H. (1929) [https://archive.org/details/FBICarabidae1 Carabidae 1. Carabinae] [ 431 p - 62 figs - 9 pl (1 col) ] * Andrewes, H. (1935) [https://archive.org/details/FBICarabidae2 Carabidae 2. Harpalinae] [ 323 p - 51 figs - 5 pl ] * Arrow, G.J. (1910) [https://archive.org/details/coleopteralamell01arro Lamellicornia 1. Cetoniinae and Dynastinae] [xiv + 322 p - 76 figs - 2 col. pl. ] * Arrow, G.J. (1917) [https://archive.org/details/coleopteralamell02arroiala Lamellicornia 2. Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, Euchirinae] [xiii + 387 p - 77 figs - 5 pl (1 col.)] * Arrow, G.J. (1931) [https://archive.org/details/FBILamellicornia3 Lamellicornia 3. Coprinae] [428 p - 61 figs - 13 pl (1 col.) - 1 map ] * Arrow, G.J. (1949) [https://archive.org/details/coleopteralamell04arro Lamellicornia 4. Lucanidae & Passalidae][vii + 274 pp., 23 pl] * Arrow, G.J. (1925) [https://archive.org/details/FBIClavicornia 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) [https://archive.org/details/FBIStaphylinidae1 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) [https://archive.org/details/FBIStaphylinidae3 Staphylinidae 3]. (Staphylininae, Trichophyinae, Termitodiscinae, Pygosteninae, Tachyporinae) 443 p - 4 col. pl. * Cameron, M. (1939) [https://archive.org/details/FBIStaphylinidae4 Staphylinidae 4]. Part 1. Subfam. Pseudopernthinae and Aleocharinae (part) * Cameron, M. (1939) Staphylindae 4. Part 2. Aleocharinae. * Fowler, W. (1912) [https://archive.org/details/coleopteragenera00fowl Coleoptera. General introduction and Cicindelidae to Paussidae] xx + 529 p - 240 figs * Gahan, C. (1906) [https://archive.org/details/coleopteraceramb01gahaiala 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) [https://archive.org/details/coleopterachryso00jacoiala Chrysomelidae 1. Eupodes, Camptosomes, Cyclica] 534 p - 172 figs - 2 pl ** Maulik, S. (1919) [https://archive.org/stream/coleopterachryso02jacoiala Chrysomelidae Volume 2 Hispinae and Cassidinae] xi + 439 p - 130 figs ** Maulik, S. (1926) [https://archive.org/details/faunaofbritishin015617mbp Chrysomelidae Volume 3. Chrysomelinae and Halticinae] 442 p - 139 figs - 1 map ** Maulik, S.(1936) [https://archive.org/stream/coleopterachryso04jaco Chrysomelidae Volume 4. Galerucinae] 648 p - 144 fig - 1 map - 1 pl - hbk *Marshall, Guy A.K. (1916) [https://archive.org/details/coleopterarhynch00mars Rhynchophora, Curculionidae] 367 p - 108 figs ;Sanctioned but not published * Beeson CFC Scolytidae * Beeson CFC Platypodidae * Stebbing, E.P. Buprestidae<ref name=lefroy />
==Diptera== * Brunetti, E. (1912) [https://archive.org/details/dipteranematocer00brun Diptera : Nematocera excluding Chironomidae & Culicidae] 581 p * Brunetti, E. (1920) [https://archive.org/details/dipterabrachycer01brune Diptera 2. Brachycera Volume 1 (Stratiomyiidae, Leptidae, Nemestinidae, Cyrtidae, Bombyliidae, Therevidae, Scenopinidae, Mydaidae, Empidae, Lonchopteridae, Platypezidae)] 401 p. * Brunetti, E. (1923) [https://archive.org/details/dipterabrachycer02brun Diptera 3. Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Conopidae, Oestridae] [424 p - 83 fig - 5 pl] * Christophers, S.R. (1933) [https://archive.org/details/FBIDiptera4 Diptera Volume 4. Culicidae tribe Anophelini] * Barraud, P.J. (1934) [https://archive.org/details/FBIDiptera5 Diptera Volume 5. (Culicidae) tribes Megarhinini & Culicini] * R Senior-White, Daphne Aubertin & John Smart (1940) [https://archive.org/details/FBIDiptera6 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) [https://archive.org/details/hymenoptera01bing Hymenoptera. Vol. 1. Wasps and bees] xxix + 579 pp. * Bingham, C. T. (1903) [https://archive.org/details/hymenoptera02bing Hymenoptera, Vol. 2. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps] 506 pp. * Morley, C. (1913) [https://archive.org/details/hymenoptera03bing Hymenoptera Vol. 3. Ichneumones Deltoidei] 531 p - 152 fig - 1 pl
==Lepidoptera== * Bingham, C. T. (1905) [https://archive.org/details/butterfliesvolii00bing Butterflies Vol. 1] - Family Nymphalidae * Bingham, C. T. (1907) [https://archive.org/details/butterflies02bingiala Butterflies Vol. 2] - Families Papilionidae, Pieridae and Lycaenidae * George Francis Hampson & others (1892–1937) Moths. 5 volumes ** Hampson, G. (1892) [https://archive.org/details/moths01hamp Moths 1. Saturniidae to Hypsidae] 527 p - 333 fig ** Hampson, G. (1894) [https://archive.org/details/moths02hamp Moths 2. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae] 609 p - 325 figs ** Hampson, G. (1895) [https://archive.org/details/moths03hamp Moths 3. Noctuidae (cont.) to Geometridae] 546 p - 226 figs ** Hampson, G. (1896) [https://archive.org/details/moths04hamp Moths 4. Pyralidae] 594 p - 287 figs ** Bell TRD & F B Scott (1937) [https://archive.org/details/moths05hamp Moths. Vol. 5. Sphingidae] [537 p - 1 folding map - 15 pl]
;Second edition * Talbot, G. (1939) [https://archive.org/details/FaunaOfBritishIndia.Butterflies1 Butterflies. Vol. 1] Papilionidae, Pieridae, xxix + 600 p - 184 figs - 1 folding map - 3 col. pl. * Talbot, G. (1947) [https://archive.org/details/FaunaOfBritishIndia.Butterflies2 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'' [https://archive.org/details/reptilesofbritis00gn]. xxvii + 452 p - 26 pl (Not part of the Fauna of British India series, but included here for completeness) * Boulenger, G. A. (1890) [https://archive.org/details/reptiliabatrachi00bouliala 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) [https://archive.org/details/FBISmithReptiles1 Reptilia and Amphibia 1: Loricata and Testudines ] xviii + 185 p - 42 figs - 2 pl ** Smith, M. A. (1935) [https://archive.org/details/FBISmithReptiles2 Reptilia and Amphibia 2: Sauria ] xiii + 440 p - 93 figs - 1 pl - 2 maps ** Smith, M. A. (1943) [https://archive.org/details/FBISmithReptiles3 Reptilia and Amphibia 3: Serpentes] xii + 583 p - 166 figs
==Fishes== * Day, Francis (July 11, 1889) [https://archive.org/details/fishes01dayfiala Fishes Volume I] Chondropterygii, Teleoste (Physostomi; Acanthopterygii: Percidae) * Day, Francis (September 21, 1889) [https://archive.org/details/fishes02dayfiala 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) [https://archive.org/details/birdsindia01oaterich Birds. 1] [582 p] * Oates, E. W. (1890) [https://archive.org/details/birdsindia02oaterich Birds. 2] [424 p] * Blanford, W. T. (1895) [https://archive.org/details/birdsindia03oaterich Birds. 3] [450 p - 102 figs] * Blanford, W. T. (1898) [https://archive.org/details/birdsindia04oaterich Birds. 4] [500 p - 127 figs]
;Second edition * Baker, Stuart (1922) [https://archive.org/details/birds01bakeiala Birds. 1] 524 p * Baker, Stuart (1924) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds2 Birds. 2] 606 p - 86 figs * Baker, Stuart (1926) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds3 Birds. 3] 534 p * Baker, Stuart (1927) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds4 Birds. 4] 471 p - 71 figs * Baker, Stuart (1928) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds5 Birds. 5] 469 p - 49 figs * Baker, Stuart (1929) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds6 Birds. 6] 548 p * Baker, Stuart (1930) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFbiBirds7 Birds. 7] 484 p (Synonymical catalogue Passeres-Grallae) * Baker, Stuart (1930) [https://archive.org/details/BakerFBIBirds8 Birds. 8.] 326 p (Synonymical catalogue Grallae - Pygopodes; Corrigenda and Addenda)
==Mammals== * Blanford, WT (1888, 1891) [https://archive.org/details/mammalia00blaniala Mammalia] ** Part 1 Primates, Carnivora, Insectivora ** Part 2 Chiroptera, Rodentia, Ungulata, Cetacea, Sirenia, Edentata ;Second edition * Pocock, R.I. (1939) [https://archive.org/details/PocockMammalia1 Mammalia. I. Primates and Carnivora] * Pocock, R.I. (1941) [https://archive.org/details/PocockMammalia2 Mammalia. II. Carnivora :Aeluroidea, Arctoidea] * Ellerman, J.R, Roonwal, M.L. (ed.) (1961) [https://archive.org/details/dli.zoological.fi.001 Mammalia. III. Rodentia]
==References== {{reflist}}
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