Herbert Hutchinson BrimleyCooper, John E. 1979. The Brothers Brimley: North Carolina Naturalists. Brimleyana No. 1:1-14 (7 March 1861 – 4 April 1946) was a self-trained

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

and long-time director of the

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) is the largest museum of its kind in the Southeastern United States. It is the oldest established museum in North Carolina, located in Raleigh. In 2013, it had about 1.2 million visitors, and i ...

. His brother, C.S. Brimley, was also a zoologist who worked at the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at

Historic Oakwood Cemetery Historic Oakwood Cemetery was founded in 1869 in North Carolina's capital, Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, near the North Carolina State Capitol in the city's Historic Oakwood neighborhood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery contains two special areas ...

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Collecting Nature: The Beginning of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
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Historic Oakwood Cemetery
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences Collection
��accessed 19 June 2008 *Herbert Hutchinson Brimley, 1949. ''A North Carolina Naturalist: H.H. Brimley: Selections from His Writings.'' Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 205 pp. 1861 births 1946 deaths Burials at Historic Oakwood Cemetery Brimley family People from Bedfordshire Directors of museums in the United States British emigrants to the United States 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists 19th-century British zoologists 20th-century British zoologists {{US-zoologist-stub