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Collectivité · 1850-

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens. The university's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of Oxford in the various colleges. The university's collection of anatomical and natural history specimens were similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acland, initiated the construction of the museum between 1855 and 1860, to bring together all the aspects of science around a central display area

Webster, Col.
Personne · fl 1946

of the Central Research Institute, Kajauli, India

Carr, Rex
Personne · fl 1947
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka
Collectivité · 1936

National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936. What is known today as the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka was founded by John Hagenbeck in the late 1920s. During John Hagenbeck's ownership of the zoos the facility was used as a collection centre by his colleague Heinz Randow who collected numerous native and exotic species from across Asia, for Hagenbeck's zoo; Tierpark Hagenbeck