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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Russell_(herpetologist) Patrick Russell] 1726-1805 (Wikipedia) came to India in 1781 and in . He had previously worked as a physician for the British [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant_Company]] (Wikipedia) at its chief factory (trading post) at Aleppo (Syria) 1750-1771. In 1785 was appointed as the East India Company's 'Botanist and Naturalist' at Madras, following Koenig's death. 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''