Record

Code	PX834
Dates	1864-1945
Person Name	Mitchell; Sir; Peter Chalmers (1864-1945); Secretary, Zoological Society of London
Surname	Mitchell
Forenames	Peter Chalmers
PreTitle	Sir
Epithet	Secretary, Zoological Society of London
Activity	Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1903-1935. Appointed CBE 1918 for wartime work for military intelligence at the War Office, where he developed the idea of dropping propaganda leaflets over German lines from hydrogen balloons. Wrote for The Times after WW1 and in 1920 was a passenger on their plane intending to fly from Cairo to the Cape, but crashed near Dar-es-Salaam. President, Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire 1923-1927. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1906, and served on its council and many of its committees. Knighted in 1929. Responsible for editing most of the life-science articles in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910).
Relationships	Married Lilian Bessie Pritchard (d. 1965), 1893

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/ZOO/200/62/25	Mitchell, Sir Peter Chalmers, 1864-1945 (London)
DF/ZOO/200/57/34	Mitchell, Sir Peter Chalmers, 1864-1945 (London)
DF/TR/1/1/24/301	Mitchell, [Peter] Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/24/203	Higginbotham, Harry E
DF/TR/1/1/32/331	Mitchell, P Chalmers
DF/ZOO/233/1/1/109	Correspondence U - Z
DF/ZOO/252/1/9/47	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers - (London)
DF/ZOO/252/1/9/48	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers- (London)
DF/ZOO/252/1/12/14	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers - (London)
DF/TR/1/1/29/445	Mitchell, [Peter] Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/33/624	Zoological Society of London
DF/ZOO/200/72/12	Mitchell, P C (London)
DF/PAL/100/63/304	Mitchell, P Chalmers
DF/PAL/100/63/305	Mitchell, P Chalmers
DF/ZOO/232/6/15/10/22	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/26/378	Mitchell, P Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/28/393	Mitchell, P Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/30/357	Mitchell, [Peter] Chalmers
DF/TR/1/1/31/390	Mitchell, [Peter] Chalmers
DF/ZOO/233/3/2/28	Correspondence Wa - Z
DF/ZOO/255/1/2/20	Duges, Alfred
DF/ZOO/252/1/3/18	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers- (London)
DF/ZOO/252/1/5/8	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers - (London)
DF/ZOO/252/1/13/57	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers- (London)
DF/ZOO/252/1/15/10	Mitchell, Peter Chalmers- (London)
DF/TR/1/1/28/265	Hartert, Ernst
DF/ZOO/232/9/27	Mammals Section: General Correspondence from May 1913 to

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