John Anderson
1833–1900
Zoologist and ethnologist. Younger brother of Thomas Anderson (1832–70). Studied medicine and zoology at Edinburgh University (MD 1862). In charge of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, 1865–86. Attached as naturalist to the Yunnan (China) expeditions, 1867–8 and 1875–6, and an expedition to the Mergui archipelago, Burma, 1881–2. Returned to England in 1886, wintering in Egypt from 1891, and studying Egyptian zoology. FRS 1879.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
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.
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