Excerpt from Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar, 1909, Vol. 1: With Supplementary Reports on Special Groups by Other Zoologists
The investigation which furnished collections whereon are based the reports comprised under the present cover owed its inception to the enlightened policy pursued by His Highness Maharaja Sayaji Rao III., Gaekwar of Baroda, for the educational and material development of the historic State which is so fortunate as to be ruled by him.
Naturally the technical inquiry at Okhamandal which His Highness honoured me by entrusting to me to carry out, had the improvement of the economic marine resources of that district as its foremost object, and indeed its raison d'itre from an administrative standpoint; yet, with a generosity towards the furtherance of pure science too rarely found among the heads of States, His Highness most willingly agreed to bear the entire expense involved in the publication of any scientific reports written by specialists upon the zoological collections made during the inquiry. He was also pleased to express the wish that such papers should be presented in the best possible form, and that no efforts were to be spared in their satisfactory illustration.
Hitherto the attention of zoologists dealing with the fauna of Indian seas has been directed in the main towards the investigation of the species inhabiting the deeper zones; in this connection I have only to cite the classic monographs with which the name of the Indian Marine Surveying steamer "Investigator" and of Major Alcock, F.R.S., late Superintendent of the Calcutta Museum (Natural History), will ever be associated with all honour.
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