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Buckledee, D
Person · fl 1954

Riding Box Attendant at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Budapest Zoological and Botanical Garden
Corporate body · 1866-

Budapest Zoo and Botanical Gardens is one of the oldest in the world. The idea of the foundation dates back to 1820-30s but it opened only on 9th August 1866. It was an initiative of a group of patriots among others geologist József Szabó, Ágoston Kubinyi, the Director of the National Museum, József Gerenday, the Director of the Botanical Garden of Budapest, and János Xántus, a zoologist, ethnographer, and the first director of the zoo
Budd, Arthur Stanley
Person · 1899-1971

Helper, Keeper and Overseer of Primates at ZSL London Zoo
Budd, Herbert Alexander
Person · 1893-

Helper with the Reptiles, Keeper and Overseer at ZSL London Zoo
Budd, J A
Person · fl 1946
Budgett, John Samuel
Budgett, John Samuel
Person · 1872-1904

John Samuel Budgett was a British zoologist and embryologist. He spent most of his short career on the genus Polypterus (bichir), found in the lakes, river margins, swamps and floodplains of tropical central and western African and the Nile River system. He died to blackwater fever shortly after his return to England. This happened on the very day that he was suppose to deliver a lecture of his work to the Zoological Society of London. He didn't have time to write a report, but he did leave a full set of drawings and specimens. It was left to his friend and colleague John Graham Kerr to interpret them and write the report