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OFFICERS. 



Principal Librarian; from 1898 Director and Principal 



Librarian. 



1756 Gowin Knight, M D. 



1772 Matthew Maty, M.D 



1776 Charles Morton, M.D. 

 1799 Joseph Planta, F.R.S. . 

 1827 Henry Ellis, F.R.S. (Sir H. Ellis, K.H.) 

 1856 Antonio Panizzi (Sir Anthony Panizzi, 



K.C.B.) 



1866 John Winter Jones .... 

 1878 Edward Augustus Bond (Sir E. A. 



Bond, K.C.B.) .... 

 1888 Edward Maunde Thompson (Sir E. M. 



Thompson, K.C.B.) 



v. G. Knight, deceased. 

 v. M. Maty, deceased. 

 v. C. Morton, deceased. 

 v. J. Planta, deceased. 



v. Sir H. Ellis, retired. 

 v. A. Panizzi, retired. 



v. J. W. Jones, retired. 



v. E. A. Bond, retired. 



Secretary. 



1787 Edward Whitaker Gray, M.D. 

 1806 Edward Bray 

 1814 Henry Ellis 

 1828 Rev. Josiah Forshall . 

 1 85 1 The duties of this office were 

 Librarian. 



. v. E. W. Gray, retired. 

 . v. E. Bray, deceased. 

 . v. H. Ellis, promoted, 

 united with those of the Principal 



Superintendent, afterwards Director, of the Natural History 



Departments. 



1856 Richard Owen, F.R.S. (Sir R. Owen, K.C.B.) (Superintendent). 

 1884 William Henry Flower, F.R.S. (Sir W. 



H. Flower, K.C.B.) (Director) . v. R. Owen, retired. 

 1898 Edwin Ray Lankester, F.R.S. . . v. Sir W. H. Flower, retired. 



