Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blyth, Edward
BLYTH, EDWARD (1810–1873)
Born Dec. 23, 1810: was a druggist at Tooting, but Natural History was the absorbing study of his life: in 1841 he was appointed Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: retired in 1862: wrote a great number of reports and papers on Zoology, especially on birds and mammals, in the Society's journals and in newspapers: he was said to have been the founder of the science of Zoology in India: his work was highly estimated by Darwin and Gould: died Dec. 27, 1873.