Catalogue description Papers of PROFESSOR HAROLD MUNRO FOX, F.R.S. (1889 - 1967)

The papers cover the years 1905 - 1967.

Professor Fox was an accomplished linguist; French, German and Italian, as well as English, are used in the notebooks, lectures and correspondence; an appropriate indication is given in the handlist.

All notebooks and lectures are manuscript with the exception of the scripts of Professor Fox's broadcast talks to schools.

I. Biographical 1 - 4

II. Notebooks and working papers 5 - 24

III. Broadcast talks to schools 25 - 30

IV. Lectures 31 - 50A

V. Publications 51 - 54

VI. Correspondence 55 - 71

Listed by Jeannine Alton and Harriot Weiskittel

Fox, Harold Munro, 1889-1967, scientist and zoologist

Summary of the career of Professor Fox.

b.1889 (at birth Harold Munro Fuchs; the form 'Fox' was used during service in the 1914- 18 War, and adopted by deed poll).

1902 Brighton College

1908 - 11 Caius College, Cambridge (Senior Scholar)

1911 - 1912 Plymouth Laboratory

1912 Naples

1913 - 14 Lecturer in Zoology, Royal College of Science, London (now Imperial College

1914 - 18 War service in Balkans, Egypt, Salonika, Palestine

1919 - 23 Lecturer in Biology, Government School of Medicine, Cairo

1920 - 28 Fellow, Caius College

1924 Zoological Expedition to Suez Canal

1926 - 67 Editor, Biological Reviews

1927 - 41 Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University

1931 Married Natalia Lvovna Mertens

1937 Fellow of the Royal Society

1941 - 55 Professor of Zoology, Bedford College, London

1950 - 53 President, International Union of Biological Sciences

1953 - 56 Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution

1955 - 67 Emeritus Professor, Bedford College, London

Research Assistant and Fellow, Queen Mary College, London

1959 Gold Medal, Linnean Society

1966 Darwin Medal, Royal Society

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