| Activity | 1936 Wellcome Museum
1939-1943 Royal Navy
1946 Wellcome Museum
1947 University College London, teaching technician
1948 Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University College London
1956 joined British Museum (Natural History) as an Experimental Officer
11 June 1964 on transfer from the Exhibition Section, Established Experimental Officer
1 April 1966 Senior Experimental Officer
1980 retired and became curator at the Alderney Museum, Guernsey
Fellow of the Museums Association
Member of the Institute of Biology
Fellow if the Linnean Society (honoris causa)
Tutor in Natural Science and examiner in Zoology to the Museums Association.
Member of the Committee of the Biological Curators Group of the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Liaison Officer to the Coelacanth Research Committee of the Royal Society, responsible for the care, treatment and distrubution on a world wide basis of all coelacanth tissue.
Tutor of Biology and museum technique at evening courses for the Science Laboratory Technicians Course at Paddington Technical College.
Harris was in charge of the Histology and Preservation section at the British Museum (Natural History) and responsible for the Comparative Anatomy collections. He conducted research into all aspects of cryobiology (rfeeze, tissue and critical point drying) and investigations into preservation of biological tissues and the problems of deterioration. Harris developed new preservatives and other reagents for use in this field. |