Nelson Annandale
Thomas Nelson Annandale
entomologist, anthropologist, and herpetologist. He was the founding director of the Zoological Survey of India
.
Life
The eldest son of
Calcutta
and in 1907 he succeeded Alcock to become its director.
He started the Records and Memoirs of the Indian Museum journals and in 1916, he became the first director of the
Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1880–1964). He was president of the 1924 session of the Indian Science Congress. The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, with which he was closely associated during his service in India as Anthropological Secretary, Vice-President and as its President in 1923 instituted a triennial an Annandale Memorial Medal for contributions to anthropology in Asia. The first award was made to Dr Fritz Sarasin
in 1928.
In 1921, as his father had been, he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4]
He attended a party to celebrate his election shortly after an ulcer of the duodenum was noted. He also had a relapse of malaria and died shortly after at the age of 47. He was buried at the South Park Street Cemetery, but later his remains were moved to the Scottish Cemetery, Park Circus, Kolkata.
His insect and spider collection is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
He was also noted for his work on the biology and anthropology of the Faroe Islands and Iceland about which he published The Faeroes and Iceland: a Study in Island Life in 1905.[5]
Working in the scientific field of herpetology, he described several new
Kolpophis annandalei.[7]
Bibliography
A partial list includes [for a complete list, see ZSI (2010)]:
- Annandale N, Robinson HC (1903). Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States. Liverpool.
- Annandale N (1905).The Faroes and Iceland: studies in island life. Oxford:Clarendon Press.
- Annandale N, Gravely FH (1914). "The limestone caves of Burma and the Malay Peninsula, Part II: The fauna of the caves". Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (ns) 9 (10) for 1913: 402–423.
- Annandale N, Prashad B, Amin-ud-Din (1921). "The Aquatic and Amphibious Molluscs of Manipur". Records of the Indian Museum 22 (4): 528–632.
- Annandale, N. & H.S. Rao. 1925. Materials for a revision of the recent Indian Limnaeidae (Mollusca Pulmonata). Records of the Indian Museum 27(3):137-189.
See also
References
- ^ Smith MA (1931). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.—Loricata, Testudines. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxviii + 185 pp. + Plates I-II. ("Annandale, Nelson", p. 12).
- doi:10.1038/113615a0.
- ^ Calman, W.T. (1925). "Thomas Nelson Annandale—1876-1924". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 97: xviii–xxi.
- ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1783–2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ Annandale TN (1905) The Faroes and Iceland : studies in island life Scan
- ^ Annandale at the Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium,cz/advanced_search?author=Annandale&submit=Search[permanent dead link].
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Annandale", pp. 9–10).
Further reading
- Anon. 1925: [Annandale, T. N.] J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 30 213–214.
- Calvert, P. P. 1924 [Annandale, T. N.] Ent. News 35:264.
- Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758–1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
- Hora, Sunder Lal (1949) In memoriam Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Section A 8:157
- Kemp, S. W. 1925 [Annandale, T. N.] Rec. Indian Mus. , Calcutta. 27:1–28
- ZSI (2010) Biography and Bibliography of Dr. T. N. Annandale (1876-1924). Zoological Survey of India.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nelson Annandale.
- Works by Nelson Annandale at Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Works by Nelson Annandale at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Nelson Annandale at Internet Archive
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