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====Francis Day====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Day Francis Day] (Wikipedia) is detailed in this [http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/download/abudhabi2009.pdf pdf], having joined the Madras Medical Service in 1852. He wrote a 1863 book on Cochin, [http://www.google.com/books?id=awsIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''The land of the Permauls, or, Cochin, its past and its present'']. He became the most important writer on Indian fish, with his first book on the subject being [http://www.archive.org/details/fishesofmalabar00dayf ''Fishes of Malabar''] (archive.org) in 1865. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2155420/?page=1 Obituary in the British Medical Journal] of 20 July 1889
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====Edward Bulkley====
Dr Edward Bulkley was a Principal Surgeon 1692-1709 when he transferred to the Civil Service as Member of Council. He resigned in 1713 and died August 1714 at Madras according to this [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortstgeorgemad02penngoog#page/n257/mode/1up cemetery record]. He is mentioned in the "Third Book of Samuel Brown" (see above) and also on this [http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=422 page] from the Linnean Society of London website, collecting plants in Bengal and Burma 1702-8, (where the spelling Bulkeley is used). He is probably the Mr Buckly, Chief Surgeon at Fort St George who sent a collection of Chinese medical instruments to the Royal Society, mentioned in this [http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/20/236-247/390.full.pdf+html article] ''Phil. Trans. 1 January 1698 vol. 20 no. 236-247'' 390-392. The autopsy mentioned above is the first recorded medico-legal autopsy performed in India.
====Francis Day====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Day Francis Day] (Wikipedia) is detailed in this [http://www.antiquariaatjunk.com/download/abudhabi2009.pdf pdf], having joined the Madras Medical Service in 1852. He wrote a 1863 book on Cochin, [http://www.google.com/books?id=awsIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''The land of the Permauls, or, Cochin, its past and its present'']. He became the most important writer on Indian fish, with his first book on the subject being [http://www.archive.org/details/fishesofmalabar00dayf ''Fishes of Malabar''] (archive.org) in 1865. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2155420/?page=1 Obituary in the British Medical Journal] of 20 July 1889
====William Griffith====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Griffith_(botanist) William Griffith] (Wikipedia) was a [[Civil Surgeon]] based in [[Tenasserim]] (later [[Malacca]], where he died). He is profiled in [http://www.archive.org/stream/makersofbritishb00oliv#page/178/mode/2up “William Griffith 1810-1845”] by WH Lang from ''Makers of British botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists'' (1913). Griffith hismelf wrote [http://www.archive.org/details/journalsoftravel15171gut ''Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries''] in 1847 (Archive.org), the initial section of which contains biographical details.
====Johann Gerhard Koenig====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Russell_(herpetologist) Patrick Russell] 1726-1805 (Wikipedia) came to India in 1781 and in 1785 was appointed as the East India Company's 'Botanist and Naturalist' at Madras. Russell's viper the venomous snake, whose toxicity is second only to the cobra, is named after him. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h6xSzhlmNdoC&pg=PA331 Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860] by Richard H Grove page 331, including the footnote gives more details including that he was initially an assistant surgeon. [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/01/23/stories/2006012300070500.htm “The first snakeman of India”] The Hindu [http://www.cmj.slma.lk/cmj4602/39.htm “Russell of Russell's viper fame”] by R L Jayakody ''The Ceylon Medical Journal Volume 46, No 2, 2001 June''
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