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Keeper at ZSL London Zoo

Painter at the Zoological Society of London

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)

Professor Edward Hindle was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943. He specialised in the study of parasites. He was founder of the Zoological Society of Glasgow. In 1943 he was appointed the first Scientific Director of the Zoological Society of London

Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919-1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920-1921, Ambassador to Greece 1922-1923, Minister in Oslo 1923-1929, Ambassador to Portugal 1929-1931, and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931-1934. Treasurer of the Zoological Society of London 1945-1950

Assistant Superintendent at ZSL London Zoo

Louis Fraser was a British zoologist and collector. Fraser had worked as an assistant in the Indian Museum at Calcutta around 1888. He worked for fourteen years at the museum of the Zoological Society of London. He worked with the anatomist Richard Owen on studies of the emu and rhea. He participated in the Niger expedition of 1841 as the African Civilisation Society's scientist. Upon his return he became in charge of Lord Derby's collection at Knowsley Hall. In 1846 he was sent by Lord Derby to collect in north Africa. In 1848 he became conservator at Knowsley Hall. He wrote Zoologica Typica, or figures of the new and rare animals and birds in the collection of the Zoological Society of London, published in 1849. In 1850, Fraser was appointed Consul of Quidah, Dahomey (now Benin), West Africa. Around 1857-1859 he collected birds and mammals in Ecuador for Philip Lutley Sclater of the Zoological Society of London, and the year after in California. Upon his return to London, he opened a shop in Regent's Park, London, selling exotic birds. The last years of his life he spent in America. Fraser wrote a Catalogue of the Knowsley Collections (1850) and described several new species including the Derbyan parakeet Psittacula derbiana named after his employer.[2] A number of species and subspecies have been named in his honour, including Fraser's anole (Anolis fraseri ), Fraser's ground snake (Liophis epinephelus fraseri ), a centipede snake (Tantilla fraseri ),[5] Fraser's eagle-owl (Bubo poensis), Fraser's warbler (Myiothlypis fraseri ),[6] and Fraser's musk shrew (Crocidura poensis)

Anatomist at Zoological Society of London