Henry John Carter
1813–95
Surgeon and naturalist. Studied medicine at University College, London, and École de Médecine, Paris. Surgeon in the East India Company, 1842–62; stationed in Bombay from 1846. Retired to Devonshire in 1864. Noted for his papers on South Asian and Arabian geology, and for his extensive researches on sponges and foraminifera. Royal Society Royal Medallist, 1872. FRS 1859.
Sources
Modern English biography
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 58 (1895): liv–lvii, Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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