Sir Clive Forster-Cooper, F.R.S

Abstract

Sir Clive Forster-Cooper, director of the British Museum (Natural History), died on August 23. He was born in London in 1880, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College,, Cambridge. At Cambridge he became greatly interested in zoology, and in 1900 joined Stanley Gardiner's expedition to the Maldives and Laccadives. Shortly after his return, he joined the staff of the North Sea Fisheries Commission research establishment, spending a year in this service, largely at sea in a converted trawler. He then returned to Cambridge to take part in another expedition designed to enlarge our knowledge of the marine biology of the Seychelles.