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Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in London. He was appointed as an Assistant Keeper (2nd class) in the Department of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) in 1936. He was promoted to Assistant Keeper (1st class) in 1943. He became Head of the Mammal Section in 1945 and Principal Scientific Officer in 1948. From 1956-1960 he was Director of the Science Museum. Then from 1960 he was Director of the British Museum (Natural History) until his retirement in 1968. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London 1950-1976.

Annie Porter (married name Fantham) was an English zoologist and Honorary Parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London. Annie Porter was the daughter of S. Porter of Brighton. After studying at University College London, she moved to the Quick Laboratory in Cambridge. From 1914 to 1917 she was Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 1915 she married fellow zoologist Harold Benjamin Fantham. From 1917 to 1933 Porter was Head of the Department of Parasitology at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. She was also Senior Lecturer in Parasitology at the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1933 to 1938 she was a research associate in zoology at McGill University

Head Keeper of the Aquarium

Honorary Supervisor of the Apes' Nursery until 1956

Oliver Graham-Jones was born in 1919 and lived in Harborne, Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School and read veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College in London.

After qualifying in 1941, he bought his own practice in Camberley, Surrey. Shortly afterwards he volunteered for the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in Italy, looking after the pack mules.

Graham-Jones took up the new post of Veterinary Officer at London Zoo in 1951, and he took a flat between the seal and hippo enclosures. He was the first resident Veterinary Surgeon at ZSL London Zoo in 1951. He set up its first animal surgery, developing the 'flying syringe' for anaesthetising animals without distress. He was responsible for the health of many famous ZSL animals, such as Guy the Gorilla, Churchill's Lion, Rota, and Chi-Chi the Giant Panda.

In 1966 he moved on to become Senior Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He was founding President of the British Veterinary Zoological Society and past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.

Clerk, Secretary's Secretary and Private Secretary at ZSL London Zoo

Leonard George Goodwin was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was educated at William Ellis School before being accepted into University College London to study botany and zoology. After graduating he went to the College of the Pharmaceutical Society and studied pharmacy, graduating in 1935. He became a demonstrator at the college under J H Burn and at his urging took further degrees in medicine and physiology.

The start of World War II saw the College evacuated, leaving Goodwin to find a new job. He started work at the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research but was called up for military service with the Royal Tank Regiment soon afterwards. After only a few days of training he was returned to Wellcome to work on tropical diseases, something considered 'vital war work' which excused him from military service. One of the important problems he was dealing with at the time was trying to find a way of preventing troops being infected with leishmaniasis, which was affecting large numbers of troops in Sicily at the time.

He continued working at the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research until 1958, when he became director of the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine. In 1964 he became head of the Nuffield Laboratories for Comparative Medicine, staying there until 1980. During this time he conducted research into anticoagulants, trypanosomiasis and arteriosclerosis.

In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1977 New Year Honours was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George "for services to the study of tropical diseases."

Catering Manager at the Zoological Society of London

Librarian and Clerk at ZSL London Zoo