James Wood-Mason

James Wood-Mason (December 1846 – 6 May 1893) was an English zoologist. He was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, after John Anderson. He collected marine animals and lepidoptera, but is best known for his work on two other groups of insects, phasmids (stick insects) and mantises (praying mantises).

The genus ''Woodmasonia'' Brunner, 1907, and at least ten species of phasmids, are named after him. Provided by Wikipedia