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Bushby, Leonard Charles
Person · 1895-1957

Bushby was Acting Curator of the Insect House (1923), then Curator (1925)

Burton, Edward
Person · fl 1835-1837

Edward Burton was a British Army Surgeon and zoologist. He was also a magistrate for Kent. He described several species of bird, for some of which he is the valid binomial authority. Burton may have been the author of an 1821 paper relating to Pelecanus aquilus Linn. on Ascension Island. He has been identified as the man who in 1835 displayed a specimen of a species of Ratelus at the Zoological Society of London. He has also been identified as the man who in 1836 communicated a description of Pipra squalida, a Himalayan flowerpecker, to the Zoological Society

Burton, Decimus
Person · 1800-1881

Architect of London Zoo. By the end of 1829, Burton had completed London Zoo, which had opened in April 1928.

Burns, Sir Alan
Person · 1887-1980

Governor of the Gold Coast. He was a British civil servant who rose through the ranks to become governor of several colonies