Record

Code	PX565
Dates	1898-1944
Person Name	Norman; John Roxbrough (1898-1944); Icthyologist
Surname	Norman
Forenames	John Roxbrough
Epithet	Icthyologist
Activity	Museum 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.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title
DF/ZOO/208/65	Staff file: Norman, John R
DF/ZOO/233/4/2	Norman, John R: Correspondence
DF/ADM/1005/99	Norman, John R
DF/ZOO/233/4	Norman, John Roxbrough: Correspondence
DF/TRI/3000/7/2	Officer in Charge - J.R. Norman
DF/ZOO/233/4/1	Norman, John R: Correspondence
DF/ZOO/233/4/3	Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - H
DF/ZOO/233/4/5	Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - I
DF/ZOO/233/4/4	Norman, John R: Correspondence, H - Z
DF/ZOO/211/15	'Terra Nova' British Antarctic Expedition reports: Norman, J R: Rhabdopleura
DF/ZOO/233/4/13	Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - L
DF/DIR/938/43	Suggestions for displays in Central Hall by A B Hastings and J R Norman
DF/PH/2/6/7/3	Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/ZOO/233/4/12	Norman, John R: Correspondence, P - Z
DF/ZOO/233	Fish Section Correspondence
DF/TM/2/84	Meek, A S (Oct 1916 - Aug 1931) and Tring Administration (1939-1944)
DF/PH/2/6/7/2	Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/PH/2/1/4/1	Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)
DF/ZOO/233/4/14	Norman, John R: Correspondence, L - Y
DF/ZOO/233/4/6	Norman, John R: Correspondence, J - Z
DF/ZOO/233/4/7	Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - G
DF/ZOO/233/4/8	Norman, John R: Correspondence, G - P
DF/ZOO/233/4/9	Norman, John R: Correspondence, P - Z
DF/ZOO/233/4/10	Norman, John R: Correspondence, A - F
DF/ZOO/233/4/11	Norman, John R: Correspondence, F - O

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