Bedford College, London: Chair of Zoology

Abstract

PBOF. H. MTJNRO Fox, who succeeds the late Prof. C. L. Boulenger as head of the zoological faculty at Bedford College, London, has had a varied career. He was educated at Brighton College and Caius College, Cambridge, proceeding to the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, as lecturer in 1913. In 1914, he enlisted in the London Mounted Brigade, in which he served until 1919, for the most part in Egypt and Palestine. In 1919 he became lecturer in biology at the School of Medicine, Cairo, leaving in 1923 to become demonstrator in zoology at Cambridge. He was already a fellow of his College and in the following year ho was elected to the Balfour studentship. He then proceeded to the Suez Canal, where he investigated the fauna and conditions in relation to migrations between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, a survey which it is hoped may be repeated in 1950. The lunar periodicity in the breeding of marine animals was his discovery. In 1926 he started the Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, of which he is still editor.