Edward George Boulenger (8 May 1888 – 30 April 1946) was a British zoologist and longtime director of the

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aquarium. Boulenger was the son of herpetologist and ichthyologist

George Albert Boulenger George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botani ...

. He was educated at St. Paul's School, and became curator at the reptile house in

in 1911, a position he held for 13 years. During World War I he served as an observer in the balloon section of the

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. In 1924 he became director of the newly opened seawater and freshwater aquarium of the

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, whose design and construction he had actively supported since 1921. In 1943 he resigned from his directorship. Like his father, Boulenger was fluent in both French and German. This benefited him when he made several trips to mainland Europe to make new acquisitions for the reptile house and the aquarium. Furthermore, Boulenger worked as an author.

Publications

*''Reptiles and Batrachians'' (1914) *''A Naturalist at the Dinner Table'' (1927) *''A Naturalist at the Zoo'' (1927)
''Animal Mysteries''
(1927) *''The Under-Water World'' (1928) * ''Fishes'' (1931) *''The Aquarium'' (1933) *''Apes and Monkeys'' (1936)
''A Natural History of the Seas''
(1936) *''Searchlight on Animals'' (1936)

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* English zoologists 1888 births 1946 deaths British herpetologists British ichthyologists People educated at St Paul's School, London 20th-century British zoologists {{UK-zoologist-stub