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John Anderson (zoologist)

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30: 137: 192:. He also wrote on the ethnology of the Selungs of the Mergui archipelago. Many of the plant specimens that he collected are at Calcutta, Kew and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1879 and was made honorary LLD of the University of Edinburgh in 1885. During the time that he held the office of superintendent of the Calcutta museum he also served as professor of comparative anatomy at the medical school in Calcutta. He and his wife Gracei travelled to Japan in 1884, forming an extensive collection of 22: 321:
Catalogue and Handbook of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum, Part I: Asoka and Indo-Scythian Galleries. Part II: Gupta and Inscription Galleries. Buddhist, Jain, Brahmanical, and Muhammadan Sculptures; Metal Weapons, objects from Tumuli,
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Anderson made comparative studies of anatomy of the species that he collected. He worked on reptiles, birds as well as mammals such as of the genus
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in 1865. He catalogued the mammal and archaeological collections. He held the position of curator until 1887, when he was succeeded by
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in Calcutta from 1861 to 1863. He went to school at George Square Academy and Hill Street Institution before joining work at the
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He retired from service in India in 1886 just a few years after his marriage. He later made extensive zoological collections in
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as a naturalist on an expedition to Upper Burma and Yunnan. This expedition allowed him to collect the Irrawaddy dolphin,
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and received his MD in 1862 with a gold medal for his thesis in zoology. He was also associated with the founding of the
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in Edinburgh and worked there for the next two years. During this period he studied marine organisms based on
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A Contribution to the Herpetology of Arabia, with a preliminary list of the reptiles and batrachians of Egypt
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The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.— Loricata, Testudines
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Japan from India: letters & notes of the journey of two travellers, chiefly by one of them.
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and made superintendent of the museum. He made several collection expeditions to China and
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He married Grace Scott Thoms, daughter of Patrick Hunter Thoms of Aberlemno, Forfar.
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Anderson moved to India in 1864 to take up the position as the first curator of the
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over which he presided. He was appointed to the chair of natural history in the
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who worked in India as the curator of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
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Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Part I
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Zoology of Egypt. Volume First. Reptilia and Batrachia
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off the coast of Scotland, and published notes in the
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Among the printed publications of John Anderson are:
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Oxford University Press. 16:Scottish anatomist and zoologist (1833–1900) 619:Fellows of the Zoological Society of London 549:Publications of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 33:Portrait bust of John Anderson on his grave 614:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 609:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society 440: 604:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London 498: 419: 382: 135: 28: 20: 390:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 385:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 240:Species named after Anderson include: 556: 378: 376: 374: 372: 370: 122:Annals and Magazine of Natural History 634:Scottish people of the British Empire 594:19th-century Scottish medical doctors 589:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 331:Calcutta?: Privately printed. 287 pp. 345:". London: Bernard Quaritch. 572 pp. 207: 196:artefacts, which was donated to the 434: 367: 13: 468: 99:in 1861. He studied anatomy under 14: 655: 537: 476:The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles 163:. In 1867 he accompanied Colonel 644:British people in colonial India 515:Dictionary of National Biography 303: 457: 413: 338:. London: R.H. Porter. 124 pp. 1: 361: 70: 639:Burials at the Dean Cemetery 574:Fellows of the Royal Society 407:UK public library membership 7: 349: 216:, forming the basis of his 202:National Museum of Scotland 10: 660: 492: 175:and the Gangetic dolphin, 584:Scientists from Edinburgh 486:. ("Anderson, J.", p. 8). 464:British Museum Collection 235: 81:National Bank of Scotland 341:Anderson, John (1898). " 279:Opisthotropis andersonii 181:Augustus Raymond Margary 131: 599:Curators from Edinburgh 334:Anderson, John (1896). 319:Anderson, John (1883). 312:Anderson, John (1881). 290:Trimeresurus andersonii 97:University of Edinburgh 505:"Anderson, John"  230:David Watson Stevenson 144: 107:which grew out of the 105:Royal Physical Society 34: 26: 544:The Anderson brothers 500:Bedddard, Frank Evers 265:Japalura andersoniana 177:Plantanista gangetica 169:Orcaella brevirostris 139: 75:Anderson was born in 32: 24: 443:"John Anderson, FRS" 399:10.1093/ref:odnb/489 140:Anderson's grave in 89:Royal Botanic Garden 87:, who worked at the 624:Scottish anatomists 579:Scottish zoologists 173:Orcaella fluminalis 113:Free Church College 629:Scottish explorers 441:Alcock A. 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zoologist
Edinburgh
National Bank of Scotland
Thomas Anderson
Royal Botanic Garden
Bank of Scotland
University of Edinburgh
John Goodsir
Royal Physical Society
Wernerian Society
Free Church College
dredging
Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Edinburgh
Indian Museum
Calcutta
James Wood-Mason
Burma
Edward Bosc Sladen
Augustus Raymond Margary

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