Excerpt from Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar, 1916, Vol. 2
When sending Part I. of these reports to the press, I hoped to be able to include in the second part - that which is now sent forth - reports upon the whole of the remaining portion of the collection made during my short visit of inspection to Okhamandal in December 1905 and January 1906. Unfortunately the outbreak of the Great German War has made this impossible, particularly in respect of the two most important of the remaining reports - those on the Polychaeta and the Tunicata. Indeed, I am doubtful if the report upon the Polychaet collection will ever be available, as the latter was in the hands of Professor Ehlers of Gottingen at the time war broke out.
In these circumstances, I decided that as I had in hand a number of valuable papers, including two long and important reports on the sponges, together with others on the Hydroida, Medusae and Polyzoa, as well as a lengthy one on the Indian Conch which has considerable economic importance on the shores of the Gulf of Kutch, it would be better to publish these at once, and relegate any further reports that may come to hand at a future date either to a supplementary issue or contribute them to some other Indian Zoological publication.
The remarkable faunistic richness of the Okhamandal coast is demonstrated most emphatically by the wonderful variety of sponge, hydroid and polyzoon life catalogued in the valuable papers contributed by Professor A. Dendy, F.R.S., and Miss Laura R. Thornely. In this respect it must be remembered that the collections were made single-handed in the face of many difficulties and within the limited period of five weeks, during which my attention was in the main directed to work of another nature, faunistic collection being of subsidiary importance.
The Government of His Highness the Maharaja Gaikwar have gain most generously undertaken to defray the whole cost of production of the present volume, thereby making the zoological world in general, and that of India in particular, their debtors for this generous and liberal expenditure.
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