John Roxborough Norman
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John Roxborough Norman (1898 – 26 May 1944) was an English ichthyologist who named many species of fish. He is known for his works A History of Fishes (1931) and A Draft Synopsis of the Orders, Families and Genera of Recent Fishes (1957).
John Roxborough Norman was born in 1898.[1]
Career
Norman started his employment as a clerk in a bank, aged 16.[1]
His lifetime affliction with rheumatic fever began during his military service during the First World War.[1]
He entered the British Museum in 1921, where he worked for Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943).[1] From 1939 to 1944, he was in charge of the Natural History Museum at Tring as the curator of zoology.[1]
Norman was the author of, among others, A History of Fishes (1931) and A Draft Synopsis of the Orders, Families and Genera of Recent Fishes (1957). He followed the tradition of Albert C. L. G. Günther in his work.[1]
