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'''Archibald Currie MacGilchrist''' (born [[Bowmore|Killarrow]], on the island of [[Islay]] in [[Argyllshire]] 24 May 1872 - died [[Calcutta]], India 14 May 1948) was a British Army medical officer and naturalist from Scotland. He graduated as a [[Master of Arts]] from the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1894.<ref name = UoG>{{cite web | title = Archibald Currie McGilchrist | url = https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH13652&type=P | accessdate = 15 June 2018| publisher = University of Glasgow | work = The University of Glasgow Story}}</ref> In 1898 he graduated from the [[University of Edinburgh]] as a Vans Dunlop scholar and a [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|M.B.Ch.B]], later gaining a D.Sc. in 1911.<ref name = roll>{{cite book | author = Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford | title = Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 2 | page = 507 | publisher = Andrews UK Limited | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-1781502310 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=olK-BAAAQBAJ&dq=Archibald+Currie+MacGilchrist&pg=PA688}}</ref> On 27 January 1900<ref name = AuctionNet>{{cite web | url = http://www.auction-net.co.uk/viewAuction.php?id=1694&offset=150 | title = Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria |accessdate = 15 June 2018 | publisher = AuctionNet}}</ref> he was appointed a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Indian Medical Service]] of the British Army, on 27 January 1903 he was promoted to [[Captain (armed forces)|captain]],<ref name = LG>{{cite web | url = https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27570/page/4099/data.pdf | title = The London Gazette June 30, 1903 | accessdate = 16 June 2018 | publisher = The Gazette}}</ref> by 1911 he was a [[major]]. In 1927 he retired on his 50th birthday with the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]].<ref name = WW1>{{cite web | title = Major Archibald Currie MacGilchrist | url = https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2794589 | accessdate = 16 June 2018 | publisher = Imperial War Museum | work = Lives of the First World War}}</ref> He was attached to the [[7th Lancers]] as part of the No. 57 Native Field Hospital,<ref name = list>{{cite web | url = http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/100620902?mode=transcription | title = Army Lists | accessdate = 16 June 2018 | publisher = National Libraries of Scotland}}</ref> during the [[Boxer Rebellion]] and received the [[China War Medal]] for his part in the [[Siege of the International Legations]] in Peking, for which he also received the [[Military Order of the Dragon]] from the Chinese Government.<ref name = medal>{{cite web | url = http://www.medal-medaille.com/sold/product_info.php?products_id=11442 | title = China War Medal 1900, attributed, Indian Medical Service, officer | accessdate = 16 June 2018 | publisher = medal-medaille}}</ref> His scientific work included research on [[quinine]] and its salts and he was Surgeon-Naturalist on board ''R.I.M.S. Investigator''. His other scientific interest was the [[Decapoda|decapod crustaceans]] of the Indian Ocean. His fellow Indian Medical Service officer, [[Alfred William Alcock]]. named an [[anomuran]], ''[[Bathycheles macgilchristi|Pylocheles (Bathycheles) macgilchristi]]'' in his honour.<ref name = Bemon>{{cite web | url = http://www.bemon.loven.gu.se/petymol.m.html | title = Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. M | accessdate = 16 June 2018 | publisher = Hans G. Hansson}}</ref><ref name = WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS|title=''Bathycheles macgilchristi'' (Alcock, 1905)|id=411828|editor=Patsy McLaughlin|year=2009|accessdate=16 June 2018|db= World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database}}</ref><ref name =MacGilchrist>{{cite journal | author = A. C. MacGilchrist Surgeon-Naturalist to the Survey M.A., M.B., Ch.B., Capt. I.M.S. | year = 1905 | title = XXVIII.—Natural History Notes from the R.I.M.S. 'Investigator,' Capt. T. H. Heming, R. N. (retired), commanding.—Series III., No. 6. An Account of the new and some of the rarer Decapod Crustacea obtained during the Surveying Seasons 1901–1904 | journal = Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Series 7 | volume = 15 | issue = 87 | pages = 233–268 | doi = 10.1080/03745480509443038 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/2220702 }}</ref> McGilchrist named the deep see fish ''[[Dysalotus alcocki]]'' in honour of Alcock in gratitude for the guidance and help he gave MacGilchrist.<ref name = MacGilchrist2>{{cite journal | author = MacGilchrist, A. C. | year = 1905 | title =Natural history notes from the R. I. M. S. 'Investigator,' Capt. T. H. Heming, R. N. (retired), commanding.--Series III., No. 8. On a new genus of teleostean fish closely allied to ''Chiasmodus'' | journal = Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Series 7 | volume = 15 | issue = 87 |pages = 268–270 | doi = 10.1080/03745480509443039 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19243816#page/314/mode/1up}}</ref> After retiring MacGilchrist appears to have remained in India and he died of unknown causes in Calcutta on 14 May 1948 at the age of 75.<ref name = WW1/>

==See also==
[[List of Indian Medical Service officers]]

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