Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was a British naturalist who curated the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal for twenty years. He was responsible for gathering much early information on the cryptozoology of India, Template:Myanmar, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the East Indies, but also wrote on New Zealand and African cryptids. He was noted by contemporaries for his interest in collecting and interpreting local reports and traditions of unknown animals,[1] and anticipated Bernard Heuvelmans in his examination of Cuvier's dictum.[2]