Salt, George, 1903 - 2003 (entomologist and ecologist)

Person

Staff Only

Dates and places

1903-2003 University of Alberta, Edmonton; Harvard; Institute of Entomology (U.K.); King's College, Cambridge

Sphere of activity

Entomologist and ecologist.

Relationships

In 1939, married Joyce Laing and had two sons, Michael and Peter.

Other information

PhD from Harvard, 1933. Worked for the United Fruit Company (Colombia) and the Institute of Entomology (Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire). Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1933; lecturer in Zoology, 1937; fellow of the Royal Society, 1956.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

File

Letter from George Salt to GHWR, 1992-03-13

File

Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/3/373

Scope and Contents

1 autograph letter signed, enclosing a copy by George Salt of the hand of the scribe who wrote the Caxton Ovid at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Parlement of Foules' lines 1-21 chosen as example.

Dates: 1992-03-13

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