Robert Charles Wroughton (15 August 1849, in Naseerabad – 15 May 1921) was an officer in the Indian Forest Service from 10 December 1871 to 1904.
[3] His major work was on the mammals of India and after his retirement in 1904, became a regular worker at the Natural History Museum in London.
He persuaded his friends in India to collect specimens and this led to a collaborative mammal survey in 1911.
Collectors for the small mammal survey included C. A. Crump (Khandesh, Darjeeling), Sir Ernest Hotson (Baluchistan), R. Shunkara Narayan Pillay (Travancore), J. M. D. Mackenzie (Burma), Captain Philip Gosse (Poona, Nilgiris), S. H. Prater (Satara), Charles McCann and others and the survey went on until 1923.
[4] The project accumulated 50,000 specimens over 12 years, especially of the smaller mammals and the information was published in 47 papers.