Sidney Frederic Harmer

Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer, KBE, FRS (9 March 1862 – 22 October 1950) was a British zoologist. He was superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology (1892–1908) and then the Keeper of Zoology (1909–1921) and director (1919–1927) of the Natural History Museum in London. His research focused on taxonomy of invertebrates and Cetacea. He was an elected fellow of the Royal Society, and served as president of the Linnean Society (1927–1931), receiving the Linnean Medal (1934).

Biography Sidney Harmer was born in 1862, the son of Frederic William Harmer, a Norwich wool merchant and amateur geologist, who served as the city's mayor (1887–88). Sidney Harmer was educated at Amersham Hall school, near Reading,

In 1908 He continued to research at the museum after his retirement as director. She had been a demonstrator in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women there. They had four children, including Russell Harmer, He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1898, and served as vice-president of the society in 1922–24.

Selected publications

as editor with Sir Arthur Shipley:

with Richard Lydekker: