GB 0505 PP11 - FOX, Professor Harold Munro (1889-1967)

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.
GB 0505 PP11 1959-1974 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres Fox , Harold Munro , 1889-1967 , zoologist

Born Harold Munro Fuchs in 1889; educated at Brighton College and Caius College, Cambridge University; worked at the Plymouth [Marine Biology] Laboratory, 1911-1912; Lecturer in Zoology, Imperial College, University of London, 1913-1914; served World War One, 1914-1918, with the Army Service Corps in Egypt, Salonika, Greece, the Balkan Peninsula and Palestine; changed name to Fox, 1914; Lecturer in Biology, Government School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, 1919-1923; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1920-1928; Balfour Student, Cambridge University, 1924-1927; leader of zoological expedition to study the fauna of the Suez Canal, Egypt, 1924; Editor of Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1926-[1967]; Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University, 1927-1941; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1937; Professor of Zoology, Bedford College, University of London, 1941-1954; Honorary President, London Natural History Society, 1950-; President, International Union of Biological Sciences, 1950-1953; Fullarian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, 1953-1956; Emeritus Professor, 1954; Fellow and Research Associate, Queen Mary College, University of London; retired 1954; Président d'Honneur, Zoological Society of France, 1955; Gold Medallist, Linnean Society of London, 1959; Darwin Medallist of the Royal Society, 1966; died 1967.

Publications: Biology: an introduction to the study of life (University Press, Cambridge, 1932); Blue blood in animals, and other essays in biology (Routledge and Sons, London, 1928); Selene, or sex and the moon (Kegan Paul, London, 1928); The personality of animals (Penguin Books, Harmonsworth, New York, 1940); The nature of animal colours (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1960); assisted with the biology sections of Elementary Science (University Press, Cambridge, 1935).

The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.

Volume containing a report by the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the papers of Fox held at Imperial College, University of London, 1974; reprints of an obituary from Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol 14, Nov 1968; programme of a ceremony at Bordeaux University to confer an honorary doctorate on Fox, Oct 1965, including a photograph of the presentation; Darwin Medal and presentation volume relating to its award to Fox by the Royal Society of London, 1966; Linnean Society Gold Medal and case, 1959; medal, probably presented to Fox with his honorary doctrate of science at the University of Bordeaux, 1965.

7 items

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.
English and French

Unlisted

Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold a personnel file for Fox (Ref: BC AR/150/D589).

Correspondence and papers of Fox, 1915-1970, are held at Imperial College, University of London (Ref: B/Fox); the Department of Manuscripts and Library Archives, Cambridge University Library, holds letters to Charles Kay Ogden, 1929-1941 (Ref: Add 8310).

Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Mar 2000 Academic teaching personnel Archives Awards Biologists Educational personnel Fox , Harold Munro , 1889-1967 , zoologist , formerly Fuchs x Fuchs , Harold Munro Linnean Society of London Medals Photographs Royal Society Scientific personnel Scientists Social behaviour Social norms Teachers University of Bordeaux Visual materials Zoologists Personnel People by occupation People

Volume containing a report by the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the papers of Fox held at Imperial College, University of London, 1974; reprints of an obituary from Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol 14, Nov 1968; programme of a ceremony at Bordeaux University to confer an honorary doctorate on Fox, Oct 1965, including a photograph of the presentation; Darwin Medal and presentation volume relating to its award to Fox by the Royal Society of London, 1966; Linnean Society Gold Medal and case, 1959; medal, probably presented to Fox with his honorary doctrate of science at the University of Bordeaux, 1965.

7 items

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.

• English

• Latin

English and French

Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold a personnel file for Fox (Ref: BC AR/150/D589).

Unlisted

Correspondence and papers of Fox, 1915-1970, are held at Imperial College, University of London (Ref: B/Fox); the Department of Manuscripts and Library Archives, Cambridge University Library, holds letters to Charles Kay Ogden, 1929-1941 (Ref: Add 8310).

Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English