found: Sketches at home and abroad, 1883:t.p. (John McCosh, M.D., Edin., F.R.C.S.E., H.E.I.C.S., F.R.G.S.L., author of "Nuova Italia," etc.)
found: Topography of Assam, 1837:t.p. (John M'Cosh, officiating second Assistant Surgeon General Hospital, officiating lecturer in clinical medicine New Medical College, Calcutta) p. vii (J. M'Cosh, Asst. Surgeon, late of Assam)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 23 Feb. 2016(John McCosh or John MacCosh or James McCosh (Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, 5 March 1805-18 January/16 March 1885) was a Scottish army surgeon who made hobbyist photographs whilst serving in India and Burma. His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Burmese War (1852-53), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer known by name. McCosh wrote a number of books on medicine and photography as well as books of poetry)
found: East-India directory and register, 1837:Bengal section, p. 140 (M'Cosh, John)
found: BL database, viewed 23 Feb. 2016(hdg.: MacCosh, John)
