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Percy R. Lowe [picture]
Bib ID 3793115
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
Online Versions
Description [ca. 1946] 
1 picture : b&w ; 6.5 x 5.3 cm. 
Series

G.M. Mathews collection of portraits of ornithologists.

Biography/History

Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870-1948), English surgeon and ornithologist, curator of birds at the Natural History Museum (London) from 1919-1935. President of the British Ornithologists' Union, 1938-1943. Renowned for his researches on the anatomy of birds.

Notes

Cutting an unidentified source.

Inscription: "Mr. P.R. Lowe. Mr Percy R. Lowe, O.B.E., has been awarded the Salvin-Godman Gold Medal by the British Ornithologists' Union for his researches on the anatomy of birds, in particular ostriches and penguins, and his work for bird preservation. The Godman-Salvin Gold Medal was instituted in 1919."--Under image.

Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.

Part of G.M. Mathews collection of portraits of ornithologists.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.pic-vn3793115

Related Material Papers of Gregory M. Mathews, 1900-1949; located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS 1465. 
Subjects Lowe, Percy Roycroft, - 1870- - Portraits.  |  Ornithologists - England - Portraits.
Occupation Ornithologists.

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