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unusual facts about Zoological Society



Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford

He held the office of Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex between 1898 and 1926, President of the Zoological Society in 1899, Mayor of Holborn in 1900, Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India between 1885 and 1886, Military Aide-de-Camp between 1908 and 1920 to King Edward VII and King George V, and sometime Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire.

Lalji Singh

He was awarded the Dr. S. P. Basu Memorial Medal of Zoological Society, Calcutta in 1973 for his outstanding contribution to the field of Cytogenetics.


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Biota

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

Cat in Repose

McCullough also sculpted Limestone Lion (1983), a similar stone work donated by CitiCorp to the Lincoln Park Zoo in memory of A. Rush Watkins, the Chicago businessman who helped establish the Lincoln Park Zoological Society and later served as its president.

Darsie Anderson

By 1919, Anderson was listed at Campden Hill in London, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

Edward Richard Alston

His principal papers in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ (1874–80) are upon rodents, especially American squirrels (1878 and 1879).

Gordon Reid

Gordon McGregor Reid (born 1948), director general and chief executive of The North of England Zoological Society

Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat

Hopkins had collaborated with Hayman and Reginald Ernest Moreau in the publication of “The type-localities of some African mammals” in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1946.

Monarto Zoo

Monarto Zoological Park is an open-range animal sanctuary that is administered by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia, along with the Adelaide Zoo.

Norton Juxta Twycross

In 1963 Norton Grange and its 12 acre gardens, were purchased for £12,000 by zoologist Molly Badham, who founded Twycross Zoo (at first known as The East Midlands Zoological Society) in the rectory's gardens.

Puerto Rico Zoological Society

The Puerto Rico Zoological Society was founded by Dr. Juan A. Rivero, a professor of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

The Zoological Society contributed to the development of Puerto Rico's only zoo, located at the UPR Mayagüez campus, named by the Legislature in 1998 as the "Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo".

Raymond Sheppard

Raymond Sheppard Fellow of Zoological Society (F.Z.S, 1946); Society of Graphic Artists (S.G.A, 1947); Pastel Society (P.S., 1948); Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (R.I, 1949), British Illustrator (1913-1958) best known for the original illustrations of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway that he was commissioned to produce at the same time as Charles Tunnicliffe.

William Penn Mott, Jr.

From 1946 to 1985 he served successively as Oakland's park superintendent, the East Bay Regional Park District's general manager, director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation under Governor Ronald Reagan, and general manager of the East Bay Zoological Society.

Zoological Society of San Diego

Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth founded the Zoological Society of San Diego, meeting October 2, 1916, and initially following precedents set by the New York Zoological Society at the Bronx Zoo.