Record

CodePX566
Dates1930-1992
Person NameWhitehead; Peter James Palmer (1930-1992); Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Zoology at NHM
SurnameWhitehead
ForenamesPeter James Palmer
EpithetPrincipal Scientific Officer, Department of Zoology at NHM
ActivityMuseum Staff: Appointed Senior Scientific Officer in Fish Section, Department of Zoology 1 Aug 1961. Principal Scientific Officer (Grade 7) 1 June 1968, Resigned 1988 (between June and November)
Educated in England at Cambridge University. Returned to Kenya 1953 and worked as a fisheries officer for the East African Freshwater Fisheries Research Organisation. On leaving the BM(NH) he worked at a fisheries research institute in La Paz, Mexico. He travelled widely during his life visiting many countries including India, South America, Indonesia, Russia and China.
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DF/ZOO/273/6/2Draft paper 'Georg Marcgraf and Brazilian Zoology' by P J P Whitehead
DF/ZOO/273/6/3Draft paper 'Seventeenth Century Drawings of Brazilian Animals' by Enrico Schaeffer in collaboration with M Noeseman and P J P Whitehead
DF/ZOO/233/5/2Whitehead, Peter James Palmer correspondence: Francis Day and his fish collection
DF/ZOO/273/6/4Draft paper 'A Clue to Lost Brazilian Landscapes by Frans Post' by P J P Whitehead and R Joppien
DF/ZOO/273/6/1Draft paper 'Science and art in Dutch seventeenth century Brazil' by P J P Whitehead
DF/PH/7/1/3/9Crown Prince Akihito in Fish Section with Whitehead, P J P; Patterson, C and Greenwood, P H
DF/ZOO/233/5/3Whitehead, Peter James Palmer correspondence: the Grussau file, A - L, concerning Whitehead's search for the Libri Picturati and the missing music manuscripts
DF/ZOO/233/5/1Whitehead, Peter James Palmer correspondence: A E Gunther on his book on J E Gray
DF/ZOO/233/5Whitehead, Peter James Palmer
DF/PH/7/1/3/12Crown Prince Akihito in Fish Section
DF/ZOO/273/6/11Whitehead, P J P: 'The Museum: It's Origins and Functions'
DF/ZOO/233/5/4Whitehead, Peter James Palmer correspondence: the Grussau file, M - Z, concerning Whitehead's search for the Libri Picturati and the missing music manuscripts
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