Authorised form of name | Anderson; John (1833 - 1900) |
Dates | 1833 - 1900 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Date of birth | 04 October 1833 |
Place of death | Buxton, Derbyshire |
Date of death | 15/08/1900 |
Activity | Education: MD (1862, Edinburgh) Career: Worked in the National Bank of Scotland; took up medicine; Professor of Natural History, Free Church College, Edinburgh; Curator of the Imperial Museum of India (1864); Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Medical College, Calcutta (by 1877); went on scientific expeditions to Burmah and the Mergui archipelago; resigned (1886) Memberships: FRSE; FLS; Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; Fellow of the Senate of the Calcutta University
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 12/06/1879 |
Relationships | Son of Thomas Anderson, secretary of National Bank of Scotland |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 113-116 signed by G A B References: R V Jones, 'The "Plain Story" of James Watt: the Wilkins Lecture 1969' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 194-220 |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/19988451 |
Code | NA8101 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1879/02 | Anderson, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/17/591 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Anderson, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 November 1898 |
NLB/17/598 | Copy letter from John Evans, to Dr John Anderson, Fellow of the Royal Society, 71 Harrington Gardens, S.W. | 23 November 1898 |
NLB/21/138 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 17 August 1900 |
NLB/21/76 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Anderson, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 July 1900 |
MC/11/406 | Letter from John Anderson, 1 Camac Street, Calcutta, to the Royal Society | 26 July 1879 |
MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |