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Henry Gwynne Vevers was a marine biologist and intelligence officer. Son of Geoffrey Marr Vevers, Superintendent at London Zoo. Vevers attended St Paul's School, then Magdalen College, Oxford. He travelled to Greenland with the Oxford University Exploration Club in 1936 and to the Faeroe Island in 1937 to collect mouse and gannet statistics. From the Faeroes and Iceland in 1937-39 he reported to the naval intelligence division of the Admiralty on the German ships which were charting deep-water channel and continuing intelligence gathering for several decades. From 1945-55 he carried out research at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, publishing his first book, The British Seashore, in 1954. He edited the Journal of Zoology and the Zoological Record. He was curator of the aquarium at London Zoo and vice-president of the Linnean Society

The Moscow Zoo was founded in 1864 by professor-biologists, K F Rulje, S A Usov and A P Bogdanov, from the Moscow State University. In 1919 the zoo was nationalized. In 1922, the ownership was transferred to the Government of Moscow and has remained under Moscow's control ever since

Painter at the Zoological Society of London