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IN connexion with the obituary notice of the late Lieut.-Col. A. W. Alcock in NATURE of April 22, Dr. B. Prashad, of the Zoological Survey of India, states that Col. Alcock's association with the Indian Museum began at the end of the survey season of 1888–89, for with the beginning of the south-west monsoon the surgeon-naturalist used to come every year for the recess period to the Indian Museum, to work out his collections. During the four years of his appointment as the surgeon-naturalist, Alcock spent every recess season in the Indian Museum, and it was during this time and as a result of his association with J. Wood-Mason, then superintendent of the Indian Museum, that Alcock developed his interest in Crustacea. In April 1893, Alcock was appointed officiating superintendent of the Indian Museum, and was confirmed in this appointment in May on the death of Wood-Mason; he held the appointment as professor of zoology in the Medical College of Calcutta as a subsidiary charge. The dates given in the obituary in NATURE, which differ slightly from those quoted by Dr. Prashad, were taken from Col. Alcock's own diary.
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The late Lieut.-CoL A. W. Alcock. Nature 131, 906–907 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131906g0
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