William Thomas Blanford
1832–1905
Geologist and zoologist. Worked in his family business as a carver and gilder. Studied at the Royal School of Mines, 1852–4. Worked for the geological survey of India, 1854–82. Visited Sikkim with Henry John Elwes in 1870. FRS 1874.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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