Record

Code	PX1970
Dates	1939-2009
Person Name	Walker; Cyril Alexander (1939-2009)
Surname	Walker
Forenames	Cyril Alexander
Activity	Museum Staff: joined the staff of the Palaeontology Department at South Kensington as a scientific assistant in May 1958 working mainly on fossil birds. Appointed curator of fossil birds in 1972. Discovered a hitherto unknown subclass of birds, Enantiornithes, publishing his findings in 'Nature' in 1981. One of the five co-authors of a 1986 paper which refuted allegations that the feathers on the Berlin and London fossil specimens of Archaeopteryx were 19th-century forgeries. Planned the move of the Museum's storage facility from Ruislip to Wandsworth 1990-1995. Transferred to the Bird Group at Tring in mid February 1996. In 1997 he organised the move of the mounted specimen collection from the 'Annexe' in Akeman Street to Wandsworth. He also carried out a survey in 1997 for the proposed re-location of the bird collections, library and staff to South Kensington; a proposal which was later abandoned. Walker retired at the end of April 1998. Fellow of the Linnaean Society and Royal Geographical Society; member of the British Ornithological Union, the Flora and Fauna Preservation Society and the RSPB.
Source	Obituary, London Naturalist 88, 2009: 229-230; obituary, Daily Telegraph, 19 May 2009.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/PH/2/1/1/99	Staff Photograph: Walker, Cyril, Palaeontology Department
DF/PH/9/13	Expeditions and Excavations: NHM / Kingston Polytechnic Fossil Expedition to Sahara Desert, Niger
DF/PH/2/5/1/2	Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff, on steps in front of Main Entrance
DF/PH/2/5/1/3	Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff
DF/PH/2/5/1/5	Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff
DF/PH/4/64/1	Opening of temporary exhibition 'John Gould, birdman'
DF/PH/9/12/11	Excavation of 'Claws' the Surrey dinosaur: Palaeontologists in quarry with jacketed bones

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