Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. August 1952

He became Honorary Secretary of the Society in 1941 and served as Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Trustees of the Natural History Section of the Prince of Wales Museum and as one of the editors of the Journal till his death in 1944. [...] He has also contributed important papers on birds of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions to the Journal including the report on the Vernay Scientific Survey of the Eastern Ghats—written in collaboration with the late Hugh Whistler—which by showing up the many gaps in our knowledge of Indian ornithology led the way to the useful regional bird surveys that have since been sponsored by the Society. [...] In the Museum his services wero invaluable and the galleries of the Natural History Section of the Prince of Wales Museum and the fine range of groups and welmounted exhibits owe much to his skill and ability. [...] It was largely during the run of Prater's editorship that the.Society's journal attained the esteemed position it now enjoys among the scientific periodicals of the world; of course we were fortunate also in our contributors who included an increasing number of workers of distinction in the international field. [...] He brought to fruition the negotiations started by his predecessors regarding the transfer of financial responsibility for the housing and proper care of the Society's zoological collections from the Society to the Government of Bombay and had the satisfaction of feeling the imminent fulfilment of his labours before leaving India in the detailed plans for the completion and utilization of the bea