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CodePX1946
Dates1915-1998
Person NamePurves; Peter Ernest (1915-1998); Senior experimental officer in Department of Zoology at NHM
SurnamePurves
ForenamesPeter Ernest
EpithetSenior experimental officer in Department of Zoology at NHM
ActivityMuseum Staff: Appointed attendant in Department of Zoology 1934; technical assistant 1946; senior experimental officer 1959; retired 1976
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DF/ZOO/232/10/1/27Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Fraser, F C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/30Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Hardy, M G 
DF/PH/3/1/2221Gallery Photograph Album 3: Staff Individual: Peter Purves working on Whale carcass 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1Purves, Peter Ernest: Correpondence arranged by Person 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/78Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sleptsov, M M 
DF/ZOO/200/77/1Candidates (general): File 3 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/51Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with McMullan, J H 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/15Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Cousins, F W 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/83Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Vevers, H G 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence arranged by Subject matter 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/36Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Ichihara, T 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/8Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Bull, H O 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/34Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Harper, H 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/22Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Dawbin, Bill 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/37Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Ivey, H J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/28Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Goodhill, V 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/32Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Holt, S J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/25Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Ebling, J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/41Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Kanwisher, J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/38Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Jablokov, A V 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/43Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with de Kock, L 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/46Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Ling, J K 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/16Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the Port of London Authority 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/15Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the New Scientist  
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/17Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Readers Digest 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/6Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence relating to requests for reprints 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/5Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence relating to plastics 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/3Purves, Peter Ernest: Memorandum relating to a visit by the Parlimentary committee on Expenditure 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/18Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the Royal Society 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/56Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Milne, L J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/57Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Moore, J C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/61Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Norris, K S 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/75Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sergeant, D 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/3Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Discovery 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/4Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Fisheries Research Board of Canada 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/10Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with MSS Educational Publishing Company 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/11Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the National Research Council, USA 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/19Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Brødrene Sæbjørnsens 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/14Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the New American Library 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/22Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sir John Cass College Biological Society 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/23Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Time and Life Magazine 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/4Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence congratulating Purves on his PhD 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/25Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Westfield College Zoological Society 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/7Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence relating to Water pumps 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/12Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Nature 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/7Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Brown, Sydney G 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/11Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Carrington, Richard 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/77Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sitwell, N 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/12Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Cave, A J E  
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/47Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Lourie, A A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/48Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Locke, B C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/31Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Harrison, J C  
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/64Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Nishiwaki, M 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/65Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Nursall, J R 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/54Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Mckinley, D 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/52Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Maderson, P F A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/62Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Nicholas, D C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/71Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Rogers, W J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/58Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Morgane, P J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/80Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Van Bree, P J H 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/69Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Reysenbach de Haan, F W 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/82Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Van Utrecht. W L 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/76Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Shearman, H F 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/14Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Clauss, G 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/81Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Van der Spoel, Siebrecht 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/5Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Flatters and Garnett LTD 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/1Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Affeld, K 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/21Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Davey, T 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/20Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Curtis, G L 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/17Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Crowcroft, W P 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/4Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Bibb, P 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/29Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Graham, A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/6Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Braham, A C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/10Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Caldwell, David K 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/33Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Hardy, A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/23Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Dinkelacker, Albrecht 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/19Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Currey, J D 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/24Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Dudok Van Heel, W H 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/26Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Evans, W E 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/35Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Hilton, P J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/39Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Jonsgard, A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/42Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Kellogg, R 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/44Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Lawrence, B 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/59Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Morzer Bruyns, W F J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/70Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Rice, D W 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/60Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Ness, A R 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/86Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Wood, A F 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/68Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Pater, N 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/73Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sacher, G A 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/45Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Lilly, J C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/50Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Mackay, S 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/49Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Lyburn, E F St J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/53Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Harrison-Matthews, L 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/55Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Meyers, R L 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/66Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Olive, J R 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/67Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Parey, P 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/72Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Rudd, J T 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/74Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Sadler, J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/79Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Slijper, E J 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/2Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Allersma, E 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/3Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Bel'kovich, V M 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/5Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Boom 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/9Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Busnel, Rene-Guy  
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/13Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Clarke, R H 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/16Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Cropper, C 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/18Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Currie, Ronald 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/40Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Johnson, T 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/84Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Walker, D 
DF/ZOO/232/10/1/85Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Warwick, R. 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/7Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the Institute of Radiology 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/9Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the Ministry of Education 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/13Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/21Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Science Journal 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/24Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the University of Miami 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/2Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the British Association for the Advancement of Science 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/6Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Herbert Morris-Brown Lenox LTD. 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/8Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Instituto Del Mar Del Peru 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/20Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with Science: The American Association for the Advancement of Science 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/1Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence relating to 'The Use of the Ear Plug in Age Determination in Whales' 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence arranged by Institution 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/2Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence relating to Mammalian Species 
DF/ZOO/208/70Staff file: Purves, Peter E 
DF/ADM/1004/747/3Whaling 
DF/ZOO/232/10/3/8Purves, Peter Ernest: Unfiled correspondence 
DF/ZOO/238/5/19SF19 Transparent plastics 
DF/ZOO/238/5/47SF47 Vacuum pump motor 
DF/ZOO/238/5/103/2SF103 Thorn E. (Whale Hall)  
DF/ZOO/238/5/103/1SF103 Exhibition and exhibits and Whale Hall  
DF/ZOO/238/5/114SF114 Hearing in Cetaceans F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves 
DF/ZOO/238/5/138SF138 Major M. D. Gallagher's collection of marine mammals 
DF/ZOO/238/5/135SF135 Dr. J. R. Olive Atlantic Cetacean collecting 
DF/ZOO/238/5/14/2/2SF14A Major N. V. L. Rybot Jersey 
DF/ZOO/232/10/2/1Purves, Peter Ernest: Correspondence with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 
DF/ZOO/239/4/2/8/40EJ Margrie and Sons: art. Sperm whale skull (GL 1951/132) 
DF/ZOO/239/4/2/12/36Nature: 'blow' of whales (GL 1955/48) 
DF/ZOO/239/4/2/12/22Royal Society: exhibit - whale ear (GL 1955/31) 
DF/BDG/7/4/14Plans of the layout of cetacean anatomical specimens in the Whale Hall 
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