tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7289728.post-1092600652578158762004-08-15T16:10:00.001-04:002004-08-15T19:02:10.506-04:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/harmerpic.jpg"><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer</span></strong></a> (9 March 1862 - 22 October 1950) was a prominent English zoologist. Among other institutional and academic appointments, he served as Superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge (1892-1908), Director of the British Museum (Natural History) (1909-1927), President of the Linnean Society of London (1927-1931), and Vice-President of the Royal Society (1922-1924). He was awarded the Linnean Gold Medal in 1934. He was created K.B.E. in 1920. Harmer was a specialist on the cetaceans. <br /> <br />He is included on Historica Botanica because of his achievement in botany as an undergraduate at University College, London. He attended that university on a mathematical scholarship. He obtained his B.Sc. in 1881. While there, he came under the influence of Ray Lankester in zoology and F.W. Oliver in botany. <br /> <br />Harmer was certainly a promising student as witnessed by the two medals which appear below. He took the third prize silver medals in both Botany and Zoology/Comparative Anatomy for 1879-1880. These medals both have the identical obverse (only one of which is shown) with the Roman date of 1877. <br /> <br />A lengthy memoriam to Harmer with a listing of his publications appears in the <u><strong>Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society</strong></u> for 1950-1951 (Volume VII, page 359-371) <br /> <br /><center><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/harmer1.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/400/harmer1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br />Obverse<span style="font-size:85%;"> <br />click on image to enlarge</span> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/harmer4.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/400/harmer4.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br />Botany<span style="font-size:85%;"> <br />click on image to enlarge</span> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/640/harmer2.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/124/1156/400/harmer2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br />Harmer Zoology/Comparative Anatomy<span style="font-size:85%;"> <br />click on image to enlarge</span></center> <br />Dannoreply@blogger.com