According to Wikipedia, Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne DSc was an English zoologist, botanist and educator who worked in India. Life and work Bourne was the son of Rev. Alfred Bourne, secretary of the British Foreign School Society, and he joined the University College School after a liberal home education. Along with his contemporary Sydney J. Hickson, he was fascinated by the lectures of Ray Lankester. He later joined the University College in 1876 and attended the Royal School of Mines. In 1886, he went to Madras to join the Presidency College as Professor of Biology. He held this position until 1898 although he also held the positions of Registrar and Superintendent of the Madras Government Museum.
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Published Works
Memoirs: The Minute Structure of the Lateral and the Central Eyes of Scorpio and of Limulus (14)
Memoirs: On Haplobranchus, a New Genus of Capitobranchiate Annelids (9)
On Indian Earthworms. Part I. Preliminary notice of Earthworms from the Nilgiris and Shevaroys (7)
Memoirs: Notes on the Naidiform Oligochæta; containing a Description of New Species of the Genera Pristina and Pterostylarides, and Remarks upon Cephalization and Gemmation as Generic and Specific Characters in the Group (1891) (6)
Memoirs: On Moniligaster grandis, A. G. B., from the Nilgiris, S. India; together with Descriptions of other Species of the Genus Moniligaster (1894) (6)
Memoirs: On Megascolex cœruleus, Templeton, from Ceylon; together with a Theory of the Course of the Blood in Earthworms (5)
Memoirs: On the Existence of Spengel's Olfactory Organ and of Paired Genital Ducts in the Pearly Nautilus (1883) (4)
