Henry Walter Bellew
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Henry Walter Bellew MRCP was an Indian-born British medical officer who worked in Afghanistan. He wrote several books based on his explorations in the region during the course of his army career and also studied and wrote on the languages and culture of Afghanistan.
Dr. Bellew as an interpreter (left) with Amir Sher Ali Khan (centre), Colonel Frederick Pollock (standing) and Colonel Crawford Trotter Chamberlain (right) in an 1869 photograph in the British Library
Portrait of Bellew's father in 1841, National Army Museum, London
Ferdinand Stoliczka
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Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. He died of high altitude sickness in Murgo during an expedition across the Himalayas.
The Geological Survey of India in 1870. Standing: F Stoliczka, R B Foote, W Theobald, FR Mallet, V Ball, W. Waagen, WL Willson Sitting: A Tween, W King, T Oldham, HB Medlicott, CA Hackett
Stoliczka discovered the Mudh formation when he visited Mud village, Spiti in the 1860s
Paleontologia Indica (1871)