Thomas C. Jerdon
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Thomas Caverhill Jerdon was an English physician, zoologist and botanist. He was a pioneering ornithologist who described numerous species of birds in India. Several species of plants and birds includ
Jerdon (second from left) and other naturalists
Dedication page from the Birds of India
Jerdonia indica
Walter Elliot (naturalist)
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Sir Walter Elliot, KCSI was a British civil servant in colonial India. He was also an eminent orientalist, linguist, archaeologist, naturalist and ethnologist who worked mainly in the Presidency of Ma
Sir Walter Elliot.
Anathana ellioti named after Elliot by George Robert Waterhouse, the genus name is derived from Tamil.
Sir Walter and Maria Dorothea Elliot's grave in Chesters Church