FOX, Professor Harold Munro (1889-1967)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0505 PP11
Held at	: Royal Holloway, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/archives ›
Full title	: FOX, Professor Harold Munro (1889-1967)
Date(s)	: 1959-1974
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Fox | Harold Munro | 1889-1967 | zoologist
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born Harold Munro Fuchs in 1889; educated at Brighton College and Caius College, Cambridge University; worked at the Plymouth [Marine Biology] Laboratory, 1911-1912; Lecturer in Zoology, Imperial College, University of London, 1913-1914; served World War One, 1914-1918, with the Army Service Corps in Egypt, Salonika, Greece, the Balkan Peninsula and Palestine; changed name to Fox, 1914; Lecturer in Biology, Government School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, 1919-1923; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1920-1928; Balfour Student, Cambridge University, 1924-1927; leader of zoological expedition to study the fauna of the Suez Canal, Egypt, 1924; Editor of Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1926-[1967]; Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University, 1927-1941; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1937; Professor of Zoology, Bedford College, University of London, 1941-1954; Honorary President, London Natural History Society, 1950-; President, International Union of Biological Sciences, 1950-1953; Fullarian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, 1953-1956; Emeritus Professor, 1954; Fellow and Research Associate, Queen Mary College, University of London; retired 1954; Président d'Honneur, Zoological Society of France, 1955; Gold Medallist, Linnean Society of London, 1959; Darwin Medallist of the Royal Society, 1966; died 1967.

Publications: Biology: an introduction to the study of life (University Press, Cambridge, 1932); Blue blood in animals, and other essays in biology (Routledge and Sons, London, 1928); Selene, or sex and the moon (Kegan Paul, London, 1928); The personality of animals (Penguin Books, Harmonsworth, New York, 1940); The nature of animal colours (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1960); assisted with the biology sections of Elementary Science (University Press, Cambridge, 1935).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Volume containing a report by the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the papers of Fox held at Imperial College, University of London, 1974; reprints of an obituary from Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol 14, Nov 1968; programme of a ceremony at Bordeaux University to confer an honorary doctorate on Fox, Oct 1965, including a photograph of the presentation; Darwin Medal and presentation volume relating to its award to Fox by the Royal Society of London, 1966; Linnean Society Gold Medal and case, 1959; medal, probably presented to Fox with his honorary doctrate of science at the University of Bordeaux, 1965.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and French

System of arrangement:

7 items

Conditions governing access:

Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.

Finding aids:

Unlisted

Archival Information

Archival history:

The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold a personnel file for Fox (Ref: BC AR/150/D589).

Correspondence and papers of Fox, 1915-1970, are held at Imperial College, University of London (Ref: B/Fox); the Department of Manuscripts and Library Archives, Cambridge University Library, holds letters to Charles Kay Ogden, 1929-1941 (Ref: Add 8310).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2000