Personal Life
He was a Freemason and briefly faced exclusion from his missionary work due to certain views held by his wife, one of them being that God's way of speaking to Adam was revealed in the designs of the Burmese women's dresses. He died at Rangoon. See his autobiography, The Story of a Working Man's Life, with Sketches of Travel in Europe, Asia, Africa and America (New York, 1870).
The standard author abbreviation Mason is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a zoological name.Read more about this topic: Francis Mason (missionary)
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