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He conducted research on snake venoms and wrote on a variety of other subjects including anthropology, agriculture, and animal husbandry. A species of <a href="/wiki/Uropeltidae" title="Uropeltidae">shieldtail snake</a> endemic to the <a href="/wiki/Shevaroy_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Shevaroy Hills">Shevaroy Hills</a> is named after him, <i><a href="/wiki/Uropeltis_shorttii" title="Uropeltis shorttii">Uropeltis shorttii</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Shortt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shortt was the son of Rose (1789-1841) and John Shortt (died November 9, 1837<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). Shortt (senior) had joined the Madras Army as an ensign in 1760, became a Major in 1778 and retired 'invalided' as conductor of ordinance at <a href="/wiki/Vellore" title="Vellore">Vellore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortt (junior) was christened on 20 May 1822 at <a href="/wiki/Arcot,_Tamil_Nadu" title="Arcot, Tamil Nadu">Arcot</a>. He may have been among the first students trained in Madras as apothecaries<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before he joined the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> Service in Madras as an Assistant Apothecary on 20 January 1846. He was then sent for training in medicine to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen" title="University of Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, and received a MD from <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_Hospital" title="King's College Hospital">King's College</a> in 1854 apart from qualifying MRCS and LSA. He was supported by a sum of £400 from an officer who had been saved from cholera by Shortt. An introduction letter from <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cleghorn_(forester)" title="Hugh Cleghorn (forester)">Hugh Cleghorn</a> to <a href="/wiki/John_Hutton_Balfour" title="John Hutton Balfour">J.H. Balfour</a> noted that Shortt was an "<a href="/wiki/Anglo-Indian_people" title="Anglo-Indian people">Anglo-Indian</a>" and that allowance be made for his "colour and manners."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also received a degree in veterinary medicine, becoming a member of the college of veterinary surgeons, Edinburgh in 1854. Returning to India, he was appointed assistant surgeon at Madras in September 1854. He served as a superintendent of vaccination for a while before being promoted Surgeon in 1866, Surgeon Major in 1873, and finally retired on 12 February 1878. He moved to <a href="/wiki/Yercaud" title="Yercaud">Yercaud</a> where he remained until his death.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Linnean_Society_of_London" title="Linnean Society of London">Linnean Society</a> in 1860. His proposers included John J. Bennet, <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Gray" title="John Edward Gray">John Edward Gray</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Robert_Gray" title="George Robert Gray">George Robert Gray</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Baird_(physician)" title="William Baird (physician)">William Baird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore_(botanist)" title="Thomas Moore (botanist)">Thomas Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Spencer_Cobbold" title="Thomas Spencer Cobbold">Thomas Spencer Cobbold</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortt married Isabella née Cursett (died 25 May 1854 aged 22) in Madras in 1848<b>.</b> A daughter Isabella married John Archibald Duncan McDougall in Madras in 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His second wife Ellen Julia Annie née Blyth (1843 - 8 July 1865) was buried at St Mary's Cemetery, Madras.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married Annie Julia Henrietta née Rogers (1851-1909) on 9 September 1875 at Bangalore. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scholarly_contributions">Scholarly contributions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Shortt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Scholarly contributions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uropeltis_shorttii.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Uropeltis_shorttii.png/220px-Uropeltis_shorttii.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Uropeltis_shorttii.png/330px-Uropeltis_shorttii.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Uropeltis_shorttii.png/440px-Uropeltis_shorttii.png 2x" data-file-width="2596" data-file-height="804" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Uropeltis_shorttii" title="Uropeltis shorttii">Uropeltis shorttii</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>While working as a superintendent of vaccines, Shortt designed a modified vaccination needle.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also translated <a href="/wiki/William_Campbell_Maclean" title="William Campbell Maclean">William Campbell Maclean</a>'s treatise on smallpox into Tamil in 1857 and into Telugu in 1858. Shortt took a keen interest in snakes and snakebites from at least 1863 onwards. He conducted snake envenomation experiments on dogs and other animals.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He examined folk remedies such as snake stones and concluded that “There is no truth in the virtues attributed to the snake stone, for it has neither the power to absorb or otherwise neutralize the snake poison from the wound.” He collected specimens of snakes, and collaborated with others who took an interest in snakebite such as <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Fayrer" title="Joseph Fayrer">Joseph Fayrer</a> to whom he sent specimens of <i><a href="/wiki/Craspedocephalus_malabaricus" title="Craspedocephalus malabaricus">Trimeresurus annamalaiensis</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also sent specimens to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Henry_Beddome" title="Richard Henry Beddome">Richard Henry Beddome</a> who described <i><a href="/wiki/Uropeltis_shorttii" title="Uropeltis shorttii">Uropeltis shorttii</a></i>, a shieldtail snake endemic to the Shevaroys.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortt took an interest in the people of the regions that he worked in, writing about aboriginal tribes, festivals, Armenian settlers,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Devadasi" title="Devadasi">devdasis</a>, and in later life took an interest in physical anthropology. He sent 20 skulls belonging to members of the Maravar tribe to the <a href="/wiki/Anthropological_Society_of_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropological Society of Paris">Anthropological Society of Paris</a>. While posted to Ganjam as a physician to the <a href="/wiki/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey" title="Great Trigonometrical Survey">Great Trigonometrical Survey</a> around 1855-56, he studied the local tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote extensively on medical topics mainly in the <i>Madras Quarterly</i> (later <i>Monthly</i>) <i>Journal of Medical Science</i>. He also treated animals in his practice, and maintained indigenous breeds of livestock and studied them. This resulted in his <i>Manual of Indian Cattle and Sheep</i> first published in 1876 and went into two further editions. </p><p>Natural history was a major interest, he described a branching palm, the nest of the arboreal <i>Crematogaster</i> sp. ants,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a note on the <a href="/wiki/Vedanthangal_Bird_Sanctuary" title="Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary">Vedanthangal</a> heronry,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> plants used as food during famines,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and proposed poisoning tigers in <a href="/wiki/Sathyamangalam" title="Sathyamangalam">Sathyamangalam</a> with <a href="/wiki/Strychnine" title="Strychnine">strychnine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writings">Writings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Shortt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shortt_Bull.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Shortt_Bull.jpg/220px-Shortt_Bull.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Shortt_Bull.jpg/330px-Shortt_Bull.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Shortt_Bull.jpg/440px-Shortt_Bull.jpg 2x" data-file-width="502" data-file-height="444" /></a><figcaption>A native bull raised by Shortt at Yercaud</figcaption></figure> <p>An incomplete list of his publications include: </p> <ul><li>(1860). <a href="//archive.org/details/anessayoncultur00shorgoog" class="extiw" title="iarchive:anessayoncultur00shorgoog">An Essay on the Culture and Manufacture of Indigo</a>. Madras:Smith. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ubvxedmq">Scanned copy, Wellcome archives</a></li> <li>(1863). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15633847">Letter to Secretary of the Zoological Society on the viper Daboia elegans</a>. Annals & Magazine of Natural History 11 (ser 3): 383–5.</li> <li>(1864). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3025213">On the Domber [a caste of acrobats]</a>. Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 2: clxxxix–cxci.</li> <li>(1864). <a href="//archive.org/details/ahandbooktocoff00shorgoog" class="extiw" title="iarchive:ahandbooktocoff00shorgoog">A Hand-Book to Coffee Planting in Southern India</a>. Madras:Pharoah & Co.</li> <li>(1864). Report on the Rot in Sheep. (Proc. Madras Government, Revenue Department, July 13, 1864.)</li> <li>(1864). Notes on differences in weight and stature of Europeans and some natives of India. Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 2: 213–6.</li> <li>(1865). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3014173">An account of some of the rude tribes, the supposed aborigines of Southern India</a>. 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(1865). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601842">"A brief account of the Myrmica Kirbii as found in Southern India"</a>. <i>Journal of the Linnean Society Zoology</i>. <b>8</b> (30): 100–102. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1096-3642.1865.tb02424.x">10.1111/j.1096-3642.1865.tb02424.x</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+the+Linnean+Society+Zoology&rft.atitle=A+brief+account+of+the+Myrmica+Kirbii+as+found+in+Southern+India.&rft.volume=8&rft.issue=30&rft.pages=100-102&rft.date=1865&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1096-3642.1865.tb02424.x&rft.au=Shortt%2C+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F31601842&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Shortt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShortt,_J.1865" class="citation journal cs1">Shortt, J. 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