Thomson, Sir (Arthur) Landsborough, (8 Oct. 1890–9 June 1977), late Second Secretary, Medical Research Council, having been second officer from 1919 (Assistant Secretary, Principal Assistant Secretary 1936, Under-Secretary 1946, Second Secretary 1949) and retiring to part-time special duties, 1957; late Chairman, Public Health Laboratory Service Board, 1950–61 (MRC), 1961–63 (statutory); President, Zoological Society of London, 1954–60 (Vice-President, 1945–48, 1950–53, 1960–64); Chairman, Home Office Advisory Committee on Protection of Birds, 1954–69; Chairman (formerly President), Council for Nature, 1964–69; Chairman of Trustees, British Museum (Natural History), 1967–69 (Trustee, 1963–71)

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
Part Time

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir William Bragg, O.M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1939

1939 ◽  
Vol 173 (954) ◽  
pp. 286-312
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Early Age ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The University

It is my first duty to refer to Fellows who have recently passed away. George Albert Boulenger was a student of the University of Brussels, his native city. He began at a very early age the study of reptiles, batrachians and fishes in the Natural History Museum at Brussels, and in 1880 became assistant naturalist there. In 1882, he was appointed a first class assistant in the Department of Zoology in the British Museum; he held this position until he retired in 1920. He has been described as a man of tremendous energy, an extremely methodical mind, and an amazing memory. These qualities were the foundation of the vast amount of work which he accomplished. He was one of the most distinguished of the descriptive biologists who have brought fame to the British Museum during the past hundred years. His most important contributions to science were the series of elaborate and detailed monographs, mostly published by the Museum. These still remain the basis of modern systematic work. They dealt with the groups of life which had interested him from the beginning, the batrachians, fishes, lizards, snakes and so forth. Thanks to his energy as a collector and as a stimulator of collectors, the Museum is rich in its possessions of these types; for example, it possesses an unparalleled collection of fresh water fishes. Boulenger was elected a Fellow in 1894 and served on the Council from 1903 to 1905. He was for some years a Vice-president of the Zoological Society and received many honours at home and abroad. He was naturalized in this country. Towards the end of his long life he forsook his reptiles and for twenty years devoted himself to the study of roses.

The grand finale: producing Eggs of the Birds of Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. McGhie
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
Colour Photography ◽  
History Book

During 1905–10, Dresser brought out his last major book, on the eggs of the birds of Europe. His Russian collaborators were making important discoveries in Central Asia and Siberia, and provided him with many specimens. Dresser publicised these discoveries in the book and in presentations at the Zoological Society of London. The Eggs of the Birds of Europe was illustrated using colour photography of eggs, mostly from Dresser’s collection. It was possibly the first natural history book to be illustrated using colour photography, based on the ‘three-colour process’. There was a further dispute with the British Museum (Natural History) as Dresser acquired some bird skins from an ‘official’ expedition, the British Expedition to Tibet of 1903–04, which the museum’s curators felt should go to the museum.

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