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'''''A Naturalist in Indian Seas''''', or, '''''Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator''''' is a 1902 publication by [[Alfred William Alcock]], a British [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[crustacean|carcinologist]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1903/02/14/archives/indian-seas-story-of-a-cruise-of-the-investigator-a-survey-ship.html INDIAN SEAS.; Story of a Cruise of the Investigator, a Survey Ship] ''New York Times'', February 14, 1903.</ref> The book is mostly a narrative describing the ''Investigator''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s journey through areas of the [[Indian Ocean]], such as the [[Laccadive Sea]], the [[Bay of Bengal]] and the [[Andaman Sea]]. It also details the history of the ''Investigator'', as well as the [[marine biology]] of the Indian Ocean.<br />
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The book is considered a classic in natural history travel,<ref name=obit>{{cite journal|author=[[William Thomas Calman|W. T. C.]], [[Stanley Wells Kemp|S. W. K.]] & P. M.-B. |year=1933 |title=Alfred William Alcock. 1859–1933 |journal=[[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=119–126|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1933.0008}}</ref> and in 1903, ''[[The Geographical Journal]]'' described it as "a most fascinating and complete popular account of the deep-sea fauna of the Indian seas. The book is one of intense interest throughout to a [[zoologist]]".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Oceanography in Indian Seas |journal=The Geographical Journal|year=1903 |volume= 21 |page=179 |publisher=Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) }}</ref> In its original edition, ''A Naturalist in Indian Seas'' was 328 pages long and published in 8 volumes in [[London]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001999554 ''A naturalist in Indian seas; or, Four years with the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator,"''], Alfred Alcock, Marine Survey of India. J. Murray, 1902.<br />
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