Edward Bulkley

Edward Bulkley (died 10 August 1714) was an East India Company surgeon (1602–1709) posted in Madras and a pioneer naturalist.

[1] The case involved the death of James Wheeler in 1693 and the only previous such examination was in November 1680 when a soldier, Joshua Adams was killed by a strike on the head by Daniel Hughes.

James Wheeler was a member of the Council of Madras and had been treated by the physician Samuel Browne whose assistant had used a pestle-and-mortar, suspected to have been used earlier for arsenic, to grind pearls as medication.

The inscription on his tomb reads Sacrum sit hoc monumentum perenni memoriae Edwardi Bulkley, Honorabili Anglorum Societati medici, feliciter experti et ipsae tandema consiliis, qui cum naturae arcana diu indagasset, laeto animo ipsae satisfecit viii.

Ne mireris viator quod in horto ubi animum perpoliebat, corpus suum voluit reponi, beatam sperans ressurectionem.

Page from John Ray's Synopsis methodica avium & piscium (1713) with a list of birds from Madras. Note that Bulkley is spelled as "Buckley" here.
Birds about Fort St. George, one of the earliest illustrated account of the birds of India. [ 7 ] The drawings were made by an Indian artist, the coloured originals are in the British Library. [ 3 ]