| Activity | Museum Staff: Snow had been a Demonstrator in Zoology (Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology) Oxford, 1953 and Resident Naturalist at New York Zoological Society's Tropical Field Station in Trinidad, 1957. He then became Director of the Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Islands, 1963 and Director of Research at the British Trust for Ornithology in Tring in 1964. He joined the Bird Section in charge of birds in October 1968 following the retirement of J.D. Macdonald. From 1969 to March 1972 he was also Officer in Charge of Tring Museum covering the period of the transfer of the bird collections to Tring in 1971. He relinquished responsibility as Head of the Sub-department in July 1976 to devote as much time as possible to research. He, and his wife Barbara Kathleen Snow, went on several study trips to South America. He retired in September 1984 and became a Visiting Research Fellow/Honorary Research Fellow.
From 1968 to 1973 he was editor of The Ibis. From 1991 to 1997 he was editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club and was editor of Birds, Discovery and Conservation: 100 years of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1992. He was also an editor of Birds of the Western Palearctic, working with a team based at the Museum and later worked on condensing this into the two volume concise edition. See note in Bull B.O.C. 2003 about his archive (cannot now find). See his autobiography Birds in our life 2008.
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Chrysalis 16 (1985) by Ian Galbraith with portrait. |