George Charles Wallich
1815–99
Surgeon and zoologist. Served with the Indian army medical service, 1838–57. Joined HMS Bulldog as naturalist to the North Atlantic telegraphic expedition in 1860; discovered evidence of animal life at great oceanic depths and published his findings. Also published on the Protozoa.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.