| Activity | Museum Staff: Sims served in the Royal Navy during and for a few years after the war, before going to university to gain his degree. He joined the Bird Section of the Museum in about 1952 but became head of the Annelid Section in 1960, where he stayed for 26 years. He took part in the British Museum (Natural History) expedition to North Borneo in 1956 collecting birds with Edward Banks. He also took part in the W.H.O. Expedition to Spain in 1961 with Graham Cowles and Peter Colston. From his origin as an Ornithologist he was to become a well respected world expert in Oligochaete taxonomy. He was instrumental in setting up the International Earthworm Society and helped organise one of the first International Oligochaeta conferences in 1985 in Grange-over-Sands. He retired from the Museum in 1986 but continued to take an active interest in taxonomy, continuing to write on his subject and to edit new editions of 'Key works to the fauna and flora of the British Isles and north western Europe', Awarded Silver Jubilee Medal 1977
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