Category: Fellows of the Zoological Society of London

He was employed by the Zoological Society of London as Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, eventually leaving in 1966 in frustration about stagnation at the zoo.

Category: Fellows of the Zoological Society of London

* Murie, James On the form and structure of the Manatee ( Manatus americanus ), ( 1872 ) London, Zoological Society of London Year

The only quagga to have been photographed alive was a mare at the Zoological Society of London's Zoo in Regent's Park in 1870.

He had earlier made a presentation on the topic at the Zoological Society of London.

* March 21 – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issues the charter establishing the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first organization of its kind in the United States and founder of the nation's first zoo.

Both the park and the San Diego Zoo are run by the Zoological Society of San Diego.

The San Diego Zoological Society became interested in developing the Wild Animal Park in 1964.

In the summer of 2003, the San Diego Zoological Society and Lowry Park Zoo orchestrated the capture of 11 wild African elephants from the Hlane Royal National Park in Swaziland.

The tour utilizes a wheeled tram that runs on biofuel instead of a monorail, and, unlike the monorail, the attraction now costs extra ; however, it remains free for members of the San Diego Zoological Society.

Banks ' house became the office of the Zoological Society of London.

* Biota !, a planned aquarium operated by Zoological Society of London ( ZSL ) in east London.

In November 2010, pangolins were added to the Zoological Society of London's list of genetically distinct and endangered mammals.

A cooperative venture between the Zoological Society of London and Mongolian scientists has resulted in successful reintroduction of these horses from zoos into their natural habitat in Mongolia ; and as of 2011 there is an estimated free-ranging population of over 300 in the wild.

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol15 pt5, December 1900.

Category: Fellows of the Zoological Society of London

** Camera trap results, Sapo National Park, Liberia, Zoological Society of London ( EDGE of Existence Programme ).

** Pygmy hippos survive two civil wars, Zoological Society of London Press Release, 10 March 2008.

: There is a rich-coloured brown tabby hybrid to be seen at the Zoological Society Gardens in Regent's Park, between the wild cat of Bengal and a tabby she-cat.

' ( This despite an intriguing skull in the British Museum of a ' tree bear ' collected in 1869 by Oldham and discussed in the Annals of the Royal Zoological Society.

It is managed under the aegis of the Zoological Society of London ( established in 1826 ), and is situated at the northern edge of Regent's Park, on the boundary line between City of Westminster and Camden ( the Regent's Canal runs through it ).

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

In spite of what was for many years a standing offer of $ 50, 000 for a live, healthy snake over long by the New York Zoological Society ( NYZS ), known since 1993 as the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), no attempt to claim this reward was ever made.

The Zoological Gardens of London for example once successfully managed to mate a male European wolf to an Indian female, resulting in a pup bearing an almost exact likeness to its sire.

This was disputed when London Zoological Garden employee Joan Proctor trained a captive specimen to come out to feed at the sound of her voice, even when she could not be seen.

Two of the earliest Budding machines sold went to Regent's Park Zoological Gardens in London and the Oxford Colleges.

A senior veterinary officer for the London Zoological Society arrived with the task of sedating the beast using a tranquiliser gun.

He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London ( 1935 – 1942 ), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund.

In 1935 Huxley was appointed Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, and spent much of the next seven years running the society and its zoological gardens, the London Zoo and Whipsnade Park, alongside his writing and research.

The following year, Richard Owen read a paper before the Zoological Society of London, in which he proposed to erect a new genus for this species, named Thylacomys.

Category: Members of the Linnean Society of London

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

He was founder of the Chemical Society of London in 1841, being its first Treasurer and second President.

Category: Members of the Linnean Society of London

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).

The Philharmonic Society of London originally commissioned the symphony in 1817.

In 1901, Bishop Montgomery became secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the family returned to London.

In 1728 he was elected into the French Academy of Sciences, and two years later into the Royal Society of London.

Elder DD The Book of Esther: Its spiritual teaching London: The Religious Tract Society, 1913

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

After overcoming considerable difficulty and achieving notable success, Boylston traveled to London in 1724 where he published his results and was elected to the Royal Society in 1726.

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 1909.

In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.

Category: Presidents of the Geological Society of London

* Bryan R. Wilson, Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science and Christadelphians ( London: Heinemann, 1961 ; Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961 ).

In April, 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.