John Anderson ( 1833 - 1900 )

Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland (04 October 1833) Death: Buxton, Derbyshire (15 August 1900) 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 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 12/06/1879.