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Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS FZS (23 November 1864 – 2 July 1945) was a Scottish zoologist who was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. [1] During this time, he directed the policy of the Zoological Gardens of London and created the world's first open zoological park, Whipsnade Zoo. [2] [3]
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The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. [ 1 ] Since 1828, it has maintained London Zoo , and since 1931 Whipsnade Zoo .
Peter Chalmers Mitchell; Charles Robert Bree; Thomas Cheeseman; John Cloudsley-Thompson; Juliet Clutton-Brock; William Cooper (conchologist) Thomas Coward; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook; Arthur Crichton; George Charles Crick; Barry Cross; David Douglas Cunningham
The Society was granted a royal charter in 1829 by King George IV, and in 1847 the zoo opened to the public to aid funding. [7] [18] It was believed that tropical animals could not survive outside in London's cold weather, so they were all kept indoors until 1902, when Peter Chalmers Mitchell was appointed secretary of the Society. [17]
According to the park, the Bristol Zoological Society's conservation team, which monitors the cameras set up alongside Bear Wood's 7.5 acres of ancient woodland, has seen the footage of the ...
Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, as President of the Zoological Society, refused to accept her resignation. [51] In 1928, Peter Chalmers Mitchell involved her in planning for the new zoological park that was then being developed at Whipsnade and he sent her to stay there, at Hall Farm, [52] while she was recuperating from her illness ...
Mitchell was elected into the Linnean Society of London in November 1843. Mitchell was the first paid secretary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), taking up the post between 10 February 1847 and 6 April 1859, instigating the construction of the first public marine aquarium in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, which opened on 22 May ...