Dictionary of Indian Biography/Alcock, Alfred William

by Charles Edward Buckland

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ALCOCK, ALFRED WILLIAM (1859–⁠)

Educated at Mill Hill, Blackheath, Westminster, and Aberdeen University : Assistant Professor of Zoology, Aberdeen University, 1883–85 : joined the Indian Medical Service, 1885 : served in the Panjab Frontier Force : Surgeon Naturalist to the Marine Survey of India on board the Investigator, 1888–1892 : Super-intendent of the Indian Museum and Professor of Zoology in the Medical College, Calcutta, since 1893 : C.I.E. : author of A Naturalist in Indian Seas and numerous zoological monographs : Major.