Casey Albert Wood

Casey Albert Wood (November 21, 1856 - January 26, 1942) was an American ophthalmologist and comparative zoologist who studied aspects of animal vision especially those of birds. He collected books on birds and zoology and helped establish the Blacker-Wood collection of ornithology at the McGill University library.

Wood was born in Wellington, Ontario and studied at local schools before graduating from Ottawa Collegiate Institute in 1874. He obtained a master of surgery and doctor of medicine from the University Bishop's College in 1877 and a doctor of civil law in 1903. His ophthalmology practice was at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and between 1888 and 1889 he worked in London. He also obtained degrees from McGill University in 1906.[1]

Wood worked as a professor of ophthalmology at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and the Northwestern University. In 1917 he joined the army and rose to the rank of Lt. Col during the First World War, serving with Colonel Fielding Garrison. He retired as a colonel. After the war, Wood studied the eyes of birds and reptiles in British Guyana and travelled later across the world including Kashmir and Sri Lanka. He published a work on the The Fundus Oculi of Birds (1917). He then lived in Vatican where he studied foreign language works on ophthalmology producing a translation of Benvenutus Grassus on the eye. Among his other works is a bibliographic compilation on vertebrate zoology.[2][3]

Wood married Emma Shearer in 1886.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Brawley, Frank (1942). "Obituary: Casey Albert Wood, M.D. 1856-1942". Arch Ophthalmol. 27 (4): 779–781. doi:10.1001/archopht.1942.00880040155016.
  2. ↑ "Casey Wood's 'Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology' an Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology Based Chiefly on the Titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and Other Libraries of Mc Gill University, Montreal Casey A. Wood". The Auk. 49: 114. 1932. JSTOR 4076759. doi:10.2307/4076759.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Casey Wood". British Journal of Ophthalmology. 26 (6): 287. 1942. doi:10.1136/bjo.26.6.287.


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