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2 unusual facts about Albert Günther


Albert Günther

After the death of John Edward Gray in 1875, Günther was appointed Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, a position he held until 1895.

His mother moved to England and when he visited it in 1855, he met John Edward Gray and Prof. Owen at the British Museum.


Ray Society

During Charles Darwin's lifetime, the Ray Society published not only Darwin's two volumes on barnacles (1851 and 1853) but also the work of many of the foremost British naturalists: Thomas Henry Huxley, William Crawford Williamson, John Blackwall, Albert Günther, James Scott Bowerbank, etc.


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