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
Aquarium Research Fellow at ZSL from January 1928 until March 1931. She had a BSc awarded by the University of London in 1926. In 1928 she exhibited specimens at two ZSL Scientific Meetings, then in May 1929 presented a paper on the breeding habits and larvae of the tompot blenny, a marine fish. This was subsequently published during October of the same year in Proceedings of the Zoological Society (Brown, 1929)
Anatomist at Zoological Society of London
Head Keeper of the Aquarium
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."
Librarian and Clerk at ZSL London Zoo
ZSL Head Keeper
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