- Henry John Carter
Henry John Carter, FRS (
18 August 1813 –4 May 1895 ) was asurgeon working inBombay ,India , who carried out work ingeology andzoology . He worked as an army surgeon in Bombay from 1859 on Her Majesty's Indian Sevice, Bombay Establishment. He edited a collection of geological papers onWestern India , including a summary of thegeology of India , which was published in 1857. Many items of his published work appeared in the journal of the Bombay Branch of theRoyal Asiatic Society , and in theAnnals of Natural History . He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society in 1859. He was awarded the Royal Society'sRoyal Medal in 1872 for "...his long continued and valuable researches in zoology, and more especially for his inquiries into the natural history of the Spongiadae."ources
* [http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=(Surname='carter') Entry for Carter] in the Royal Society's Library and Archive catalogue's details of Fellows (accessed 24 April 2008)
* [http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1753 Royal Medal awards page] , from theRoyal Society
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