Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blanford, William Thomas
BLANFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1832–1905)
Born Oct. 7, 1832: son of William, Blanford: educated at the Royal School' of Mines (Scholar,) and Mining Academy, Freiburg: in the Geological Survey of India, 1855–82: Geologist of the Abyssinian Expedition up to Magdala, 1868: on the Persian Boundary Commission, 1872: President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1878–9: of the Geological Society, 1888–90: received its Wollaston medal, 1883: Treasurer of the Society: Vice-President of the Royal Society, 1892–3, 1901–3: published works on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia and Persia; a manual of Geology on India, 1879: President of the Geological section of the British Association meeting in Canada, 1884: edited The Fauna of British India: was author of the Mammalia, 1888–91, and of the Birds, 1895, 1898: C.I.E., 1904: LL.D. Montreal, and F.R.S., 1874: on its Council and Vice-President: died June 23. 1905.