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Tams, Willie Horace Thomas
Persona · 1891-1980

Tams was an assistant to John Stanley Gardiner at the University of Cambridge and joined the board of the Linnean Society in 1913. During World War I he served in the Canadian army. In 1920 he was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London as an assistant in the Entomology department. He took part in a voyage to the Gulf of Guinea from October 1932 to March 1933. He also travelled to Madeira and the Seychelles. Tams published more than 20 articles on the taxonomy of lepidoptera, including articles on the Lasiocampidae. He was a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, an associate of the Linnean Society of London and was assistant editor of the Entomologist's Gazette
White, Dr J
Persona · fl 1952
Waterhouse, George Robert
Waterhouse, George Robert
Persona · 1810-1888

George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist. He became interested in entomology though his father (an amateur entomologist) and he founded the Entomological Society of London along with Frederick William Hope in 1833 with himself as honorary curator. He became its president in 1849-50. The Royal Institution at Liverpool appointed him curator of its museum in 1835 and he exchanged this in 1836 for a position at the Zoological Society of London. His early work was on cataloguing the mammals at the museum and although he completed the work the next year, it was not published as he had not followed the quinary system of that time. He was invited to join Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle but he declined it. On Darwin's return, the collection of mammals and beetles was entrusted to him. In November 1843 he became an assistant in the mineralogical department of the British Museum of Natural History. He became keeper in 1851 and held the position until his retirement in 1880. He was the author of A Natural History of the Mammalia (1846-48). He assisted Louis Agassiz with his Nomenclator Zoologicus.
Sonntag, Dr Charles F
Persona · 1888-1925

Anatomist at Zoological Society of London
Parker, Hampton Wildman
Persona · 1897-1968

Hampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist. Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He was the author of several on snakes and frogs. He discovered a new species of of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald
Young, John Zachary
Young, John Zachary
Persona · 1907-1997

John Zachary Young was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist