Record

CodePX565
Dates1898-1944
Person NameNorman; John Roxbrough (1898-1944); Icthyologist
SurnameNorman
ForenamesJohn Roxbrough
EpithetIcthyologist
ActivityMuseum Staff: Norman was invalided out of the Army in 1918 with his health permanently affected. He started to study zoology at Imperial College but left after taking up a post at the BM(NH) staff in 1921. He was in charge of the fish collections and became Deputy Keeper of Zoology. He was transferred to Tring in October 1939 to become Officer in Charge when T.C.S. Morrison-Scott was called up for military service. He and his wife moved to Tring in October 1939 and he died in Tring on 26 May 1944 aged 45 after a long illness.

Foreign member of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists. Was responsible for the re-organisation of the fish gallery in the museum and the publication of the guide-book it. He wrote reports on fishes for the Discovery II expedition, British Australia and New Zealand Antarctic expedition and the Murray expedition.

Obituaries: Bull.South African Museums Association 3(7) 1944: 213 (copy with W.L.Sclater obituary in reprints); Nature, Lond. 153, 1944: 738; Proc.Linn.Soc.Lond. 156, 1945: 214-217.
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DF/ZOO/208/65Staff file: Norman, John R 
DF/ADM/1005/99Norman, John R 
DF/ZOO/233/4/1Norman, John R: Correspondence 
DF/ZOO/211/15'Terra Nova' British Antarctic Expedition reports: Norman, J R: Rhabdopleura 
DF/ZOO/233/4Norman, John Roxbrough: Correspondence 
DF/ZOO/233/4/13Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - L 
DF/ZOO/233/4/12Norman, John R: Correspondence, P - Z 
DF/TM/2/84Meek, A S (Oct 1916 - Aug 1931) and Tring Administration (1939-1944) 
DF/PH/2/6/7/3Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department 
DF/PH/2/6/7/2Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department 
DF/ZOO/233/4/14Norman, John R: Correspondence, L - Y 
DF/ZOO/233/4/8Norman, John R: Correspondence, G - P 
DF/ZOO/233/4/9Norman, John R: Correspondence, P - Z 
DF/ZOO/233/4/10Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - F 
DF/ZOO/233/4/11Norman, John R: Correspondence, F - O 
DF/TRI/3000/7/2Officer in Charge - J.R. Norman 
DF/DIR/938/43Suggestions for displays in Central Hall by A B Hastings and J R Norman 
DF/ZOO/233Fish Section Correspondence 
DF/PH/2/1/4/1Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph) 
DF/ZOO/233/4/2Norman, John R: Correspondence 
DF/ZOO/233/4/3Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - H 
DF/ZOO/233/4/4Norman, John R: Correspondence, H - Z 
DF/ZOO/233/4/5Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - I 
DF/ZOO/233/4/6Norman, John R: Correspondence, J - Z 
DF/ZOO/233/4/7Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - G 
DF/ZOO/238/5/22SF22 Aberdaron Bay collecting  
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