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Oscar Louis Fraser

1849–94

Osteologist. Son of Louis Fraser. Assistant prosector to the Zoological Society of London; osteologist to the museum at Calcutta from circa 1871.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/209/116/44)

Galton 1871, p. 395

India, select deaths and burials, 1719–1948 (Ancestry.com, accessed 29 March 2017)

ODNB s.v. Fraser, Louis

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870–1): 393–410.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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