Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Clarke Abel (1780-1826) English surgeon and naturalist born around 1780. He accompanied Lost Amherst on his trip to China in 1816 as the expedition naturalist. As a result of this trip he wrote and published a "Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China" (1818). He went on to become the surgeon-in-chief to the governor-general of India. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.