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Francis Day
====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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