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Corporate body · fl 1946

The University Museum of Zoology is a museum of the University of Cambridge and part of the research community of the Department of Zoology. The museum houses an extensive collection of scientifically important zoological material. Much of the museum's material derives from the great collecting expeditions of the 19th century, which provided the first documentation of the fauna in many parts of the world. The earliest exhibits come from the Harwood anatomical collection which was purchase in 1814. The museum added further collections including birds from Swainson and animals from the Cambridge Philosophical Society, to which Charles Darwin had contributed

Person · 1859-

The Museum of Comparative Zoology is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural history research museums at Harvard, whose public face in the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Murray, J F
Person · 1901-

Temporary Car Park Attendant at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Murray, Charles Augustus
Person · 1806-1895

Sir Charles Augustus Murray was a British author and diplomat

Murray, Andrew
Person · 1812-1878

Andrew Dickson Murrary was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in coleoptera. In botany, he specialised in Coniferae. He served as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh during 1858-59. Murray was a prominent opponent of the Darwin-Wallace model of natural selection. Murray believed that hybridisation was a better explanation for mimicry than natural selection. In 1860, Murray reviewed Darwin's On the Origin of Species in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Murphy, William
Person · fl 1955

Sweeper at ZSL London Zoo

Murphy, William
Person · 1902-

Temporary Helper at ZSL London Zoo