How to Pronounce Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons
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Feb 07, 1901 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Died on 01 Aug 1975 (aged 74)
South African herpetologist (1901–1975)
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About Vivian Frederick Maynard Fitzsimons
- Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons, born in Pietermaritzburg, was a notable herpetologist in South Africa.
- Also, he contributed to the collection of spermatophyte samples for the National Herbarium which has become part of the South African National Biodiversity Institute at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden.
- In 1937, together with Anna Amelia Obermeyer, he collected some of the earliest plant specimens from the Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Later, as director of the Transvaal Museum, he together with Charles Koch helped to establish the Namib Desert Research Institute in Gobabeb
