Edward George Boulenger FRS (1888 - 1946) .... Mr Boulenger was a Zoologist and from 1911 Curator of the Reptile House a position he held for 13 years... In 1924 he became the long time Director of the London Zoo Aquarium (19 years) .... He resigned his directorship in 1943 ...He was also Author of at least 10 books which are still sought after by Zoologists today ... Mr Boulenger addressed many lectures over the years ... Born in London in 1888 and educated at St Pauls School which incidentally was where his famous Father George Albert Boulenger lectured ... He got married in 1914 to Gladys Carre and they had one daughter in 1916... he travelled in his job New York in 1936 , Madeira in 1927 , Tangier in 1939 , The Americas in 1936 .... In 1939 he was registered as living at Nursling House , Southampton , Hampshire Sadly he passed away aged just 58 in Plymouth Devon in 1946
I've got the following books by E. G. Boulenger:- A Naturalist at the Zoo The Aquarium Book The London Zoo The Zoo Cavalcade The Zoo and Aquarium Book Queer Fish A Naturalist at the Dinner Table Searchlight on Animals Animal Mysteries Animal Ways Animals in the Wild and in Captivity Apes and Monkeys E. G. Boulenger also contributed the chapter on fish in Volume 3 of "List of the Vertebrated Animals Exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London 1828 – 1927: Centenary Edition" (1929) I'm sure that there are a number of other books by this author that I'm not familiar with; it would be intetesting to know if other ZooChatters have any different titles written by E. G. Boulenger.
E G Boulenger was the son of George Albert Boulenger, who was born in Belgium but worked at the Natural History Museum with Günther and became a British subject. He described many reptiles, amphibians and fishes, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society. Many animals were also named in his honour, including the largest of all the cichlids, Boulengerochromis microlepidotus.
After he retired from the Natural History Museum, G. A. Boulenger returned to his native Belgium where he spent his "retirement" working in the Brussels Natural History Museum. In Brussels, he concentrated on botany, instead of herpetology and ichthyology, and became an expert in the classification of roses.
E. G. Boulenger also wrote World Natural History (1937). This is a single volume animal encyclopedia laid out along taxonomic lines. In common with other books of the genre it is full of interesting anecdotes.
@Tim May : Don't know if you also "collect" online book but if you do, here another book by E.G. Boulenger in which a lot of information about the Herp-collection of London Zoo can be found : Reptiles and batrachians, - Biodiversity Heritage Library
