Yule Mervyn Charles McCann was a naturalist in India and New Zealand.
11 Facts About Charles McCann
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Charles McCann wrote a popular book on the trees of India and edited a major regional flora apart from publishing many of his other observations, mainly in the journal of the Bombay Natural History Society that he was associated with.
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Charles McCann contributed to studies of New Zealand's whales, seals, skinks and geckos.
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Charles McCann studied at St Mary's High school at Mazagaon in Bombay and worked for a while under Father Ethelbert Blatter at St Xavier's College as a laboratory assistant and curator.
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Charles McCann briefly worked with the Bombay city police and then joined the Bombay Natural History Society as a collector for the Mammal Survey.
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Charles McCann was involved in the development of the Natural History galleries of the Prince of Wales Museum of Bombay.
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Charles McCann was a prolific writer and published 200 articles and papers in the Journal of the BNHS, covering plants, birds, mammals and insects.
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Charles McCann was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
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Charles McCann is one of the outstanding botanists in India and his monograph on Grasses, which he wrote jointly with the late Fr.
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Charles McCann contributed various authoritative papers on Indian Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians.
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Charles McCann became interested in the whale and seal collections as well as deep-sea fishes.