Career
His career included spells as Curator of Mammals and Birds for the Zoological Society of London and editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists" Club and the Avicultural Magazine. He also presented nature programmes on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Children"s Hour under the name "The Zoo Manitoba", and also "Friends from the Zoo" on British Broadcasting Corporation Television in the 1930s. He illustrated and photographed many animals and birds in captivity and is credited for taking the only known photographs of the now extinct pink-headed duck.
Fellow, New York Zoological Society.
Corresponding Fellow, American Ornithologists" Union. And Corresponding Member, Societe National d"Acclimatation de France.