in 1948 and gained its Associate in 1948 remaining a member until his death. Gibson-Hill's health began to deteriorate in the late 1950s; he was a diabetic and a heavy smoker and was often hospitalised for cerebral and general oedema. He was found dead at his home in Singapore shortly before he was due to retire as Director of the Raffles Museum. He was the last expatriate Briton to hold that position. Publications Gibson-Hill was a skilled sketcher and photographer, talents he used to illustrate his many publications. He produced numerous scientific papers, often published in the Bulletin of the Raffles Museum and the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Books or book-length papers authored by him include: 1936 – Warwickshire. Frederick Muller: London. (Under the pseudonym of John Lisle). 1947 – British sea birds. Witherby: London. 1947 – Contributions to the Natural History of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, No. 18. 1949 – Birds of the coast. Witherby: London. 1949 – The Malayan landscape: seventy camera studies. Kelly & Walsh. 1949 – An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Malaya. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, No. 20. 1952 – Documents Relating to John Clunies Ross, Alexander Hare and the establishment of the Colony on the Cocos-Keeling Islands. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 25, parts 4 and 5. Notes References British ornithologists British curators 1911 births 1963 deaths Museum directors British expatriates in Singapore History of Christmas Island History of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Malayan people of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Japan People educated at Malvern College 20th-century British zoologists