Alfred William Alcock
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Alfred William Alcock (June 23, 1859 - March 24, 1933) was a British naturalist and carcinologist.
Alcock was the son of a sea-captain in Bombay, India. He studied in England, and returned to India at age 17.
Alcock studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1881. Four years later, he joined the Indian Medical Service and went to India in 1886. He was attached to the survey ship Investigator in 1888, when he became Surgeon-Naturalist to the Indian Marine Service and alternated periods at sea with time at the Indian Museum in Calcutta. His primary interest was on fishes, decapods and corals. In 1897 he returned to England for good, and became a member of the Royal Society in 1901. Alcock published A Naturalist in Indian Seas in 1902.
[edit] Eponymous species
- Bathynemertes alcocki Laidlaw, 1906
- Sabellaria alcocki
- Pourtalesia alcocki Koehler, 1914
- Aristeus alcocki Ramadan, 1938
- Pasiphaea alcocki (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891).
