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Authorised form of nameGunther; Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf (1830 - 1914)
Dates1830 - 1914
Place of birthEsslingen, Germany
Date of birth03 October 1830
Date of death01/02/1914
Research fieldZoology
ActivityEducation:
Stuttgart; University of Tubingen; St Bartolomew's Hospital. PhD (1852, Tubingen), MD (1858,Tubingen), MA
Career:
Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1867
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1875-1876
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1878
RelationshipsMarried Roberta, sister of William Carmichael McIntosh (FRS 1877)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1914-1915 vol 88 pp xi-xxvi, plate, signed by W C M
References:
A E Gunther, 'The Darwin Letters at Shrewsbury School' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 25-43
Notes:
Henry M Noad has signed the election certificate twice
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/5048452
Royal Society codeNA6656
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MC/11/354Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]7 May 1879
MM/14/157Letter from A C L G Gunther, British Museum, to George Gabriel Stokes24 March 1871
NLB/10/174Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, Fellow of the Royal Society 12 October 1894
NLB/10/104Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1894
NLB/14/625Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Dr Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of Civil Engineers, and Walter Hills, President of the Pharmaceutical Society, 17 Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 10 April 1897
NLB/16/749Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to R J Gunther1 June 1898
NLB/18/776Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary [of the Royal Society]10 May 1899
NLB/31/668Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, Fellow of the Royal Society30 October 1905
NLB/36/444Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to R J Gunther31 October 1907
NLB/37/832Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Henry Balfour, Langley Lodge, Headingon Hill, Oxford21 May 1908
NLB/42/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf] Gunther FRS 27 May 1910
RR/7/452Referee's report by Albert Charles Gotthilf Lewis Gunther, on a paper 'Preliminary report of the biological results of a cruise in H. M. S. 'Valorous’ to Davis Strait in 1875' by John Gwyn Jeffreys4 August 1876
RR/7/103Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'Description of Ceratodus, a genus of Ganoid fishes, recently discovered in rivers of Queensland, Australia' by Albert Günther7 June 1871
RR/7/456Referee's report by Albert Charles Gotthilf Lewis Gunther, on a paper 'On the structure of a species of millepora occurring at Tahiti, Society Islands' by Henry Nottidge Moseley14 July 1876
RR/9/84Referee's report by Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, on a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of the central nervous system in vertebrate animals. Sub-section I. Teleostei. Appendix. On the brain of the Mormyridae' by Alfred Sanders4 November 1882
RR/14/187Referee's report by Albert Charles Lewis Gottgilf Günther, on a paper 'The external features in the development of Lepidosiren paradoxa, Fitz' by John Graham Kerrnd [May 1899]
EC/1867/05Gunther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/15/205Referee's report by Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, on a paper 'The action of the spurge (Euphorbia hiberna, L.) on salmonoid fishes' by H M Kyle7 July 1901
RR/9/385Referee's report by Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Gunther, on a paper 'On the blood-vessels of mustelus antarcticus: a contribution to the morphology of the vascular system in the vertebrata' by Thomas Jeffery Parker20 July 1886
MC/10/265Letter from A [Albert] Günther, Zoological Department, British Museum, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]8 June 1875
MC/10/311Letter from A [Albert] Günther, Zoological Department, British Museum, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]1 December 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/144Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to the Secretary of the Royal Society3 January 1878
MC/11/157Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]19 January 1878
AP/65/7Unpublished paper, 'Contributions to the anatomy of the central nervous system in vertebrate animals' by Alfred Sanders1888
MC/11/217Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, [President of the Royal Society]21 May 1878
MC/11/314Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]26 February 1879
MC/11/407Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]27 July 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
RR/8/22Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises.—Parts III. and IV. The races of the aldabra group and mascarene islands' by Albert Günther23 February 1877
RR/8/23Letter from Albert Günther, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises.—Parts III. and IV. The races of the aldabra group and mascarene islands' by Albert Günther26 March 1877
PP/14/11Paper, 'On the dentition of Ornithorhynchus [platypus]' by [Michael Rogers] Oldfield Thomas1889
RR/7/102Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'Description of Ceratodus, a genus of Ganoid fishes, recently discovered in rivers of Queensland, Australia' by Albert Günther19 April 1871
PP/15/18Paper, 'A milk dentition in Orcyteropus [aardvark]' by Oldfield Thomas1889
RR/7/309Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises. Parts I. & II - Introduction, and the tortoises of the galapagos islands' by Albert Charles Louis Gotthilf Gunther25 July 1874
MC/16/43Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, Horace T Brown, James Geikie, A H Green, A C L G Gunther, E Ray Lankester, E B Poulton, G J Romanes, to the Royal Society[May 1893]
MC/25/93Letter from [Albert] Gunther, 2 Lichfield Road, Kew Gardens, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]21 May 1910
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/26/102Letter from [Robert Theodore] Gunther, Magdalen College, Oxford, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]22 October 1911
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