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Boulenger, Edward George
Persona · 1888-1946

Born in 1888, the son of herpetologist George Albert Boulenger. He was curator of reptiles at London Zoo from 1911-1924, and then director of the aquarium from 1924 to 1943.

Procter, Joan Beauchamp
Persona · 1897-1931

Joan Beauchamp Procter was a British zoologist and herpetologist. She worked initially at the British Museum (Natural History) and later at the Zoological Society of London, as the first female Curator of Reptiles at London Zoo. She undertook substantial taxonomic work and made innovative contributions to veterinary practice and zoo displays. She wrote scientific and popular zoological articles, including early accounts of the behaviour of captive komodo dragons.

Gould, John
Persona · 1804-1881

John Gould was an English ornithologist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrate by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. His identification of the birds now nicknamed 'Darwin's finches' played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species

Seth-Smith, David
Persona · 1875-1963

David Seth-Smith was a British zoologist, wildlife artist, broadcaster and author. His career included spells as Curator of Mammals and Birds for the Zoological Society of London and editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club and the Avicultural Magazine. He also presented nature programmes on the BBC's Children's Hour under the name 'The Zoo Man', and also ''Friends from the Zoo' on BBC Television in the 1930s. He illustrated and photographed many animals and birds in captivity and is credited with taking the only known photographs of the now extinct pink-headed duck.

By 1945, he was a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society, Member of the British Ornithologist's Union, Hon. Fellow, New York Zoological Society; Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union; and Corresponding Member, Societe National d'Acclimatation de France.

Brambell, Dr Michael R
Persona · fl 1970

Curator of Mammals at London Zoo. He was Director of Chester Zoo 1978-1995. He won the 1999 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London.

Olney, Peter
Persona

Curator of Birds

Bushby, Leonard Charles
Persona · 1895-1957

Bushby was Acting Curator of the Insect House (1923), then Curator (1925)

Lester, John Withers
Persona · 1908-

Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological Society of London. He was awarded the Silver Medal on 16th November 1955 for outstanding services in leading expeditions to collect animals from Sierra Leone in 1948, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast in 1950, Uganda in 1952, Sierra Leone in 1954 and British Guiana in 1955

Waterhouse, George Robert
Persona · 1810-1888

George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist. He became interested in entomology though his father (an amateur entomologist) and he founded the Entomological Society of London along with Frederick William Hope in 1833 with himself as honorary curator. He became its president in 1849-50. The Royal Institution at Liverpool appointed him curator of its museum in 1835 and he exchanged this in 1836 for a position at the Zoological Society of London. His early work was on cataloguing the mammals at the museum and although he completed the work the next year, it was not published as he had not followed the quinary system of that time. He was invited to join Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle but he declined it. On Darwin's return, the collection of mammals and beetles was entrusted to him. In November 1843 he became an assistant in the mineralogical department of the British Museum of Natural History. He became keeper in 1851 and held the position until his retirement in 1880. He was the author of A Natural History of the Mammalia (1846-48). He assisted Louis Agassiz with his Nomenclator Zoologicus.

Kock, Richard
Persona · fl 1991

Curator Veterinarian at Whipsnade