James Wood-Mason
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1846 – 1893
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Who was James Wood-Mason?
James Wood-Mason was an English zoologist. He was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, after John Anderson. He collected marine animals and lepidoptera, but is best known for his work on two other groups of insects, phasmids and mantids.
The genus Woodmasonia Brunner, 1907, and at least ten species of phasmids, are named after him.
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- Born
- Dec 1, 1846
Gloucestershire - Education
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- Died
- May 6, 1893
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on July 23, 2013
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