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154:(which he joined when he was 20) from 1943 to 1948. He was a member of the International Council for Bird Preservation from 1935 and was involved in the drafting of the Protection of Birds Act of 1954. He served on the Councils of the National Trust and the Zoological Society. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He had a great interest in the writings of the naturalists on the voyages of James Cook. Kinnear was one of the founders of the Society for the History of Natural History. He wrote two papers in the 105:
He helped the BNHS organize its survey of Indian mammals which were begun around 1911. When the First World War broke out, he attempted to join the Indian army. He served briefly in the Bombay volunteer rifles and as an intelligence officer in the defense of Bombay port between 1915 and 1919.
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Aged 65 in August 1947, then the normal age of retirement, the trustees decided to appoint Kinnear as director of the museum. He was appointed a
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in 1905–1907. He joined Eagle Clarke to Fair Isle. In 1907, he went aboard a whaling ship around Greenland to collect bird specimens.
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In 1913, he married Gwendolen Beatrice Millard, daughter of Edinburgh physician William Wright Millard, a relative of
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architect Charles George Hood Kinnear and his wife, Jessie Jane, and came from the same banking family (
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Barclay-Smith, Phyllis (2004). "Kinnear, Sir Norman Boyd (1882–1957)". In Quirke, V. M (ed.).
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In 1920 he returned to Britain and became an assistant in the Department of Zoology at the
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on the history of Indian ornithology and mammalology. He edited editions of the
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During this time, he prepared a booklet on the animals of Mesopotamia.
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He died on his 75th birthday at his home on Burghey Road, Wimbledon.
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Prater, SH (1957). "Obituary. Norman Boyd Kinnear 1882–1957".
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Kinnear studied at Edinburgh Academy before moving to
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Index

Norman Boyd
CB
Scottish
Edinburgh
Thomas Kinnear & Company
Sir William Jardine
Trinity College, Glenalmond
Royal Scottish Museum
W. Eagle Clarke
William Eagle Clarke
Bombay Natural History Society
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Walter Samuel Millard
Natural History Museum
CB
knighted
June of that year
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
British Ornithologists' Union
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Hugh Whistler


Ripley, S. D.
"Obituary"
doi
10.2307/4082092
JSTOR
4082092

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