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Forster-Cooper was born on 3 April 1880 in Hampstead, London, the second child and only son of John Forster Cooper and his wife Mary Emily Miley. His maternal grandfather, Miles Miley, was an amateur botanist and naturalist, and encouraged Clive Forster-Cooper in his interest in natural history. He
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to undertake collections and study the formation of coral reefs. From 1902 to 1903 he was naturalist to the North Seas Fisheries Commission Scientific Investigations, sailing around the Indian Ocean, taking soundings and collecting fauna and flora of the Seychelles. In 1905 Forster-Cooper joined the
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1938. A large part of its collection was preserved in highly flammable alcohol in glass jars, and during the Second World War, the museum was bombed a number of times. Forster Cooper oversaw the removal of much of the important parts of the collection to storage at
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The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagoes : being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900
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He returned to Cambridge University, where he organized an expedition to collect large mammalian fauna, including specimens of the gigantic rhinoceros
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On 25 July 1912 at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea Borough, London County, Forster Cooper married Rosalie, eldest daughter of R. Tunstall-Smith, of
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On the skull and dentition of Paraceratherium bugtiense: a genus of aberrant rhinoceroses, from the Lower Miocene deposits of Dera Bugti
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Thaumastotherium osborni, a new genus of Perissodactyles from the Upper Oligocene deposits of the Bugti Hills of Baluchistan
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Charles Tate Regan (1902). "On the Fishes of the Maldive Islands I Freshwater II Dredged". In J. Stanley Gardiner (ed.).
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On remains of extinct Proboscidea in the Museums of Geology and Zoology in the University of Cambridge
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Paraceratherium bugtiense, a new genus of Rhinocerotidae from the Bugti Hills of Baluchistan
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The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Description of the expedition
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As a result of this meeting, in 1907 he joined Dr Andrews' collecting expedition to the
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and Curator of the museum. He spent a year in America working closely Osborn, Matthew,
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The genus Hyracotherium. A revision and description of new specimens found in England
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Metamynodon bugtiensis, sp. n., from the Dera Bugti deposits of Baluchistan
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New genera and species of mammals from the Miocene deposits of Baluchistan
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Baluchitherium osborni (? syn. Indricotherium turgaicum, Borrissyak)
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in 1936 and knighted in 1946. He was also a foreign member of the
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in 1946 and died on 23 August 1947. Lady Forster-Cooper died in
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The Anthracotheriidae of the Dera Bugti deposits in Baluchistan
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Fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes
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Macrotherium salinum, sp. n., a new Chalicothere from India
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Mammalian remains from the Lower Eocene of the London Clay
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Brachyodus woodi, a new species from the Hempstead Beds
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Notes on the species of Ancodon from the Hempstead Beds
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Carnivora from the Dera Bugti deposits of Baluchistan
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made by Forster-Cooper during the Maldives expedition
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New Anthracotheres and allied forms from Baluchistan
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On the ear region of certain of the Chrysochloridae
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Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 10, 155–157. 459:Note on a lower jaw of an African Elephant 440:. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 609–626. 426:. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 357–366. 305:Directorship of the Natural History Museum 670: 524:. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 10, 2, 49–55. 658: 176: 122:in London. He was the first to describe 839:People educated at Summer Fields School 550:The extinct rhinoceroses of Baluchistan 510:. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 17, 337. 468:. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 12, 259. 447:. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 9, 10, 542. 192:In 1900, Forster Cooper travelled with 821: 766: 685: 599: 271:Cambridge University Museum of Zoology 116:Cambridge University Museum of Zoology 642: 640: 638: 636: 829:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 798: 438:Miocene Proboscidia from Baluchistan 884:20th-century British businesspeople 660:"Cooper , Clive Forster (CPR897CF)" 265:Work at the University of Cambridge 13: 633: 335:American Museum of Natural History 14: 895: 424:Chalicotheriodea from Baluchistan 646:'Forster-Cooper, Sir Clive', in 834:People educated at Rugby School 538:. Phil. Trans. B, 221, 431–448. 517:. Phil. Trans. B, 216, 265–283. 482:. Phil. Trans. B, 212, 369–394. 367: 343: 228:, then Professor of Zoology at 172: 760: 748: 652: 593: 1: 475:. Phil. Trans. B, 212, 35–66. 380:1907. (With J. S. Gardiner.) 143: 869:Fellows of the Royal Society 552:. Phil. Trans. 223, 569–616. 527:1928. (With C. W. Andrews.) 331:New York Academy of Sciences 165:, and took a BA in 1901 and 7: 664:A Cambridge Alumni Database 522:Pseudamphimeryx hantonensis 340:He died on 23 August 1947. 279:School of Tropical Medicine 10: 900: 666:. University of Cambridge. 269:He became director of the 163:Trinity College, Cambridge 76:Trinity College, Cambridge 136:, the largest known land 128:, also commonly known as 98: 88: 81: 71: 63: 51: 30: 23: 844:English palaeontologists 586: 571:Taxon named in his honor 161:. In 1897 he went up to 559:. Palaeobiol. 6, 25–29. 283:University of Liverpool 182:Zoological illustration 16:English palaeontologist 879:Scientists from London 784:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0006 705:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0006 619:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0006 389:Microchoerus erinaceus 325:He was elected to the 311:Natural History Museum 189: 120:Natural History Museum 864:People from Hampstead 576:The red-bar anthias, 531:. 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London
Trinity College, Cambridge
Palaeontology
Sir
palaeontologist
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Natural History Museum
Paraceratherium
mammal
Summer Fields School
Oxford
Rugby School
Trinity College, Cambridge
MA

Zoological illustration
spoon worms
John Stanley Gardiner
Maldive
Laccadive Islands
Percy Sladen
Indian Ocean
Dr C. W. Andrews
Fayum
H. F. Osborn
Columbia University
Walter W. Granger
W. K. Gregory
Wyoming
Baluchitherium

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