Echis carinatus
Alcock sailed to India in 1886 and served in the north-west frontier with Sikh regiment and Punjab regiments. In Baluchistan he dealt with his first case of a fatal snake bite from an "Echis carinatus". In 1888 he became Surgeon-Naturalist to the Indian Marine Survey on the survey ship "Investigator". Here he studied marine zoology and he published many papers along with the zoologist James Wood-Mason and others. He wrote about these years in "A Naturalist in Indian Seas" (1902) which is considered a classic in natural history travel.