Vice President
Prof. John C. Poynton, MSc, PhD, OMS, is Professor Emeritus of biology at the University of Natal, South Africa, a research associate of the Natural History Museum, London, and a scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Prof. Poynton's main research has been in African zoology and biogeography; he has also published in the philosophy of science and in psychical research. He served on the council of the South African Society for Psychical Research, and subsequently on the council of the Society for Psychical Research in London, where he was the Hon. Secretary from 1997 to his election as President in 2004. He stood down after three years, and was elected President for a second term from 2015 to 2018.
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