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MR. M. A. C. HINTON retired from his position as keeper of the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) on June 29. He has been associated with the Museum for many years, becoming a voluntary worker in 1910 and an assistant in the Mammal Section in 1921. He was promoted to deputy keeper in 1927 and took charge of the Zoology Department in 1936. His official work has, of necessity, involved most of the mammalian orders, but his principal contributions have been to the knowledge of the Rodentia. Numerous smaller papers, many of them with special reference to the species occurring in the Pleistocene of southern England, culminated in 1926 in the publication of the first volume of his monographic work on "Voles and Lemmings (Microtinæ) Living and Extinct".
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Mr. M. A. C. Hinton, F.R.S.. Nature 156, 43 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156043b0
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