Sidney Frederic Harmer

Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer, KBE, FRS was a British zoologist. He was superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology (1892–1908) and then the Keeper of Zoology (1909–1921) and director (1919–1927) of the Natural History Museum in London. His research focused on taxonomy of invertebrates and Cetacea. He was an elected fellow of the Royal Society (1898), and served as president of the Linnean Society (1927–1931), receiving the Linnean Medal (1934).