Francis Day
Francis Talbot Day (2 March 1829 – 10 July 1889) was an army surgeon and naturalist in the
Madras Presidency who later became the Inspector-General of Fisheries in
India and
Burma. A pioneer
ichthyologist, he
described more than three hundred fishes in the two-volume work on ''The Fishes of India''. He also wrote the fish volumes of the
Fauna of British India series. He was also responsible for the introduction of trout into the
Nilgiri hills, for which he received a medal from the French
Societe d'Acclimatation. Many of his fish specimens are distributed across museums with only a small fraction deposited in the British Museum (Natural History Museum, London), an anomaly caused by a prolonged conflict with
Albert Günther, the keeper of zoology there.
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