John Anderson (zoologist)
- John Anderson (zoologist)
John Anderson FRS (4 October 1833 – 22 July 1900) was a Scottish zoologist.
He was born in Edinburgh, studied medicine in 1861 and went to India in 1864, becoming the first curator of the Indian Museum at Calcutta in 1865 and held the position until 1887, when he was succeeded by James Wood-Mason. During his time in India, he made several collecting expeditions to China and Burma. In 1867 he accompanied Colonel Edward Bosc Sladen as a naturalist on an expedition to Upper Burma and Yunnan. [Smith, M. A. 1941. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Amphibia.] In 1875-6 he travelled to the same area under Colonel Horace Browne. Anderson made a third expedition for the Indian Museum in 1881–2 to the Mergui archipelago, Burma. [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/489 Anderson, John (1833-1900), zoologist and ethnologist] by D. T. Moore in Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 21 July 2008)] ]After his return to Britain he made extensive zoological collections in Egypt, forming the basis of his "Zoology of Egypt". He died in Buxton, England.
Species named after him include "Sacculina andersoni" Giard, 1887, a parastic barnacle.
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