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
Robert Thomson Leiper was born in 1881in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. His main focus of study was helminthology - the study of parasitic flatworms. He founded the Journal of Helminthology in 1923. He was the first professor of helminthology at the University of London and director of these studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - a post he held from 1905 until his retirement in 1947.
Pathologist at ZSL London Zoo
Member of London Zoo staff, probably Head Keeper
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)
He joined the Zoological Society's Accounts Department in 1903. He served in the Army from 1917 to 1919 and after he was demobilised he was appointed Accountant at the Society. He later became the Society's Assistant Treasurer. He made a vast collection of photographs which were presented to the Society on his death
Children's Zoo Supervisor
Bushby was Acting Curator of the Insect House (1923), then Curator (1925)
Maintenance Supervisor at ZSL London Zoo