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Person
Authorized form of name
Harmer, Sidney Frederic, Sir
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Description area
Dates of existence
1862-1950
History
Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer was a British zoologist. He was President of the Linnean Society 1927-1931 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1934. He was Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology from 1892-1908, Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1909 to 1921 and director of the Museum from 1919 to 1927. His research library is held in the National Marine Biological Library at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth