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2 unusual facts about Francis Day


Francis Day

He also wrote on British and Irish Salmonidae, which he illustrated with nine plates, the colouring of which was done by Miss Florence Woolward.

One outcome of this professional friction resulted in Day's selling an extensive collection of fishes to the Australian Museum in 1883, ignoring the British Museum, the expected recipient.


Dwarf snakeheads


Francis Day (1889): The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.

Lepidoptera Indica

Moore also noted the contributions of Sir Walter Elliot from the Madras region, S. Nevill(e) Ward for notes from the Malabar coast, W. S. Atkinson, A E Russell, Colonel A M Lang (Oudh, Kashmir, Simla), Captain T. Hutton (Mussoorie), Captain H. L. de la Chaumette (Lucknow), C. Horne, Dr Francis Day, W. Forsyth Hunter, Major J. Le Mesurier, Major-Gen.


see also

Haludaria

The name Haludaria is derived from "Haludar", the name of a young Bengali artist who provided the illustrations for Francis Day's book on the Ganges River fishes.