Harold Munro Fox, 1889-1967

Abstract

Harold Munro Fox, Emeritus Professor in the University of London, died on the morning of 29 January 1967 at the age of seventy-seven of a coronary occlusion while enjoying his customary week-end ride on his horse. He was, at the time of his death and after thirteen years of retirement, daily engaged on his researches on the biology and systematics of ostracod crustacea, busy in the editing of the Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , and by his own wish active as librarian and unofficial tutor to students in the Department of Zoology of Queen Mary College, London. A great traveller and an accomplished linguist—it is said that he had a good working knowledge of six languages and was fluent in four of them—he achieved through the excellence of his researches and his ease of communication with scientists of many nationalities a truly international reputation as a zoologist which was matched by his own remarkable knowledge of contemporary developments in zoology.