Herbert Hutchinson Brimley Explained

Herbert Hutchinson Brimley
Birth Date:	7 March 1861
Birth Place:	Willington, Bedfordshire, England
Death Place:	Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Citizenship:	American
Nationality:	English
Field:	Zoology
Work Institution:	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Herbert Hutchinson Brimley^[1] (7 March 1861 – 4 April 1946) was a self-trained zoologist and long-time director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. His brother, C.S. Brimley, was also a zoologist who worked at the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.

References and external links

• Collecting Nature: The Beginning of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences—accessed 19 June 2008
• North Carolina State Archives Photo Gallery--Herbert Hutchinson Brimley—accessed 19 June 2008
• University of Iowa, Museum of Natural History--A Whale for Iowa—accessed 19 June 2008
• Historic Oakwood Cemetery—grave listings, accessed 27 June 2008
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Cooper, John E. 1979. The Brothers Brimley: North Carolina Naturalists. Brimleyana No. 1:1-14