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Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1811 - 1872) was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. Jerdon was born in County Durham near Jedburgh and studied at Edinburgh University. He became assistant-surgeon in the British East India Company, stationed in India and later Surgeon Major in the Madras Regiment.

India

Jerdon started collecting birds shortly after his arrival in India on 21 February 1836. He was in the 2nd Light Cavalry for the next four years posted in the Deccan and Eastern Ghats. After his marriage to Flora Macleod, niece of general L. W. Watson, in July 1841, he was posted to the Nilgiri Hills. Flora had an interest in botanical art and took an interest in orchids. Around 1845 the Jerdon's lived in their Ooty home Woodside, and their children were baptised at the local St. Stephens church. This was followed by a posting to Nellore where he interacted with the tribes and obtained information on the natural history. He was frequently at Fort St. George in 1844-47. He was appointed Civil Surgeon at Tellicherry in 1847 and remained there until 1851.
In 1852 he was promoted to Surgeon and assigned to the 4th Light Cavalry posted in the Central Provinces. He served in the Narmada and Saugor region during the 1857 mutiny. After peace was established he went on leave to Darjeeling. On his way, he met Lord Canning, the Viceroy and proposed his scheme for a series of manuals on the vertebrates of India.

The want of brief, but comprehensive Manual of the Natural History of India has been long felt by all interested in such inquiries. At the present, it's necessary to search through voluminous transactions of learned Societies, and scientific Journals, to obtain any general acquaintance with what has been already ascertained regarding the Fauna of India, and, excepting to a few more favorably placed, even these are inaccessible. The issue of a Manual, which should comprise all available information in sufficient detail for the discrimination and identification of such objects of Natural History as might be met with, without being rendered cumbrous by minutiae of synonymy or of history, has therefore long been considered a desideratum.
To meet this want it's proposed to publish a series of such Manuals for all the Vertebrated Animals of India, containing characters of all the classes, orders, families, and genera, and descriptions of all the species of all Mammals, Birds, Beptiles, and Fishes, found in India.
Prospectus in his Birds of India regarding the proposed Fauna of British India.

Jerdon's most important publication was The Birds of India (1862-64), which included over 1008 species

Writings

Jerdon, T. C. 1840 Cuculus himalayanus sp. n. Madras J. Literature and Science 11: 12-13
Jerdon, T. C. 1842 Cuculus venustus sp. n. Madras J. Literature and Science 13: 140
Jerdon, T. C. 1847 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology 1036 (September 4,1847)
Jerdon, T. C. 1851 A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India. Madras J. Lit. Sci. 17: 103-127
Jerdon, T. C. 1853 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. J. Asiat. Soc. 153
Jerdon, T. C. 1854 A catalogue of the species of ants found in southern India. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2)13: 45-56
Jerdon, T. C. 1863 The Birds of India. Volume I 1857 (May 30,1863)
Jerdon, T. C. 1864 The Birds of India. Volume II, Part I 1895 (February 20,1864)
Jerdon, T. C. 1864 The Birds of India. Volume III 1931 (October 29,1864)
Jerdon, T. C. 1870 Notes on Indian Herpetology. P. Asiatic Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85
Jerdon, T. C. 1874 The mammals of India: natural history. John Wheldon, London.

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