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Boswell, Francis
Person · 1852-

Storekeeper at ZSL London Zoo

Bothwell, Anne
Person · 1911-

Clerk and Typist at ZSL London Zoo

Botting, Eirene Adeline
Person · 1899-1980

British writer and translator, known primarily for Frost in May, a semi-autobiographical novel set in a convent school

Boughton, Alfred
Person · 1889-

Odd Man at ZSL London Zoo, later Sweeper in the Gardens

Boulenger, Edward George
Person · 1888-1946

Born in 1888, the son of herpetologist George Albert Boulenger. He was curator of reptiles at London Zoo from 1911-1924, and then director of the aquarium from 1924 to 1943.

Boulenger, George Albert
Person · 1858-1937

George Albert Boulenger was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians. In 1880 he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum, then a department of the British Museum, and assigned to the task of cataloguing the amphibians in the collection. He was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. His son, Edward George Boulenger, was also a zoologist and held the post of Director at the ZSL London Zoo Aquarium