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Wood-Mason, James, 1846-1893

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Personal name headingWood-Mason, James, 1846-1893
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Variant(s)Mason, James Wood-, 1846-1893
Associated countryIndia
LocatedKolkata (India)
Birth date1846-12
Death date1893-05-06
Field of activityZoology Education
AffiliationIndian Museum University of Calcutta. Medical College
Profession or occupationZoologists College teachers
Found inFigures and descriptions of nine species of Squillidæ from the collection in the Indian Museum, 1895: t.p. (James Wood-Mason, late Superintendent of the Indian Museum, and late Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College of Bengal)
Wikipedia, viewed 8 Dec. 2017 (James Wood-Mason (December 1846 - 6 May 1893) was an English zoologist. He was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta. He collected marine animals and lepidoptera, but is best known for his work on two other groups of insects, phasmids (stick insects) and mantids (praying mantises).)
Associated languageeng