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RefNoEC/1890/09
Previous numbersCert XI, 183
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TitleNorman, Alfred Merle: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationEminently distinguished for his researches in Marine Invertebrate Biology, carried on continuously for thirty-seven years. In 1880 Dr Norman, by the special invitation of the French Government, took part in the deep-sea exploration in the Bay of Biscay, on Board 'Le Travailleur,' and for his services received, in 1884, the commemoration medal of the Institute of France. He edited, with additions, vo liv of 'Monograph of British Spongiadae,' by the late J S Bowerbank, for the Ray Society. Author, along with T R Stebbing, of Crustacean Isopoda of the 'Lightning,' 'Porcupine,' and 'Valorous' expeditions in the Zool Soc Trans, 1886; along with G S Brady, FRS, 'Monograph of the Marine and Fresh Water Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and North-West Europe,' Roy Dubl Soc Trans, 1889; 'Report on the Crustacea of the Faroe Channel - HMS 'Knight Errant' (1880). Author of over forty other reports published in the Brit Assoc Reports, Ann and Mag Nat Hist, Journ Conchol, Journ Micros Sci, &c, &c. Chairman of the Jury on Natural History at the Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. Professor of Collections of the Invertebrate Fauna of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, which are probably unequalled, and are always at the disposal of authors, as may be seen in every work published in Britain on the subject for the last twenty years.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: Jos D Hooker; W C Williamson; P Herbert Carpenter
From Personal Knowledge: Henry B Brady; Geo J Allman; H B Tristram; Thomas Hincks; W C McIntosh; P L Sclater; W H Flower; A Gunther; Osbert Salvin; T Rupert
Jones; John Lubbock
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Norman, Alfred Merle: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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