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1845-1919
Librarian at ZSL
Person
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1892-
Assisted temporarily in the Library at ZSL
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1899-
Librarian and Clerk at ZSL London Zoo
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1881-1917
Librarian of the Zoological Society of London. He was killed at the Battle of Arras during the First World War. The Society held and administered a fund for his son, Leslie Peavot (See SEC/9/1/21). He is remembered on the War Memorial at ZSL London Zoo. His wife was Secretary to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and was temporary Librarian and Clerk of Publications (1961-1918)
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1873-1961
Francis Martin Duncan was born in 1873. He was ZSL Librarian and Clerk of Publications from 1919, taking over from previous librarian Henry Peavot's widow Maude who stepped into the role after Henry was killed during the war in France in 1917.
Duncan was also a skilled photographer, and is noted as having been a pioneer of applying the cinematograph to the movements of invertebrate and microscopic animals. He is also noted as having contributed greatly (along with his assistant) to the preparation of a new library catalogue and a geographical card catalogue.
He died in 1961
Person
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1921-
Assistant Librarian at ZSL London Zoo