Cyril Connolly

'Dr Hugh Lamprey, Director of Research, was also on that visit as a man who is almost: "too large to be true - a handsome giant whose bell-like voice would steal any picture from Gary Cooper or boom through an Aldous Huxley novel: he is an Oxford biologist and complete man of action combined. He is to fly me over the game Migration tomorrow if Everest or F6 can spare him."

One visitor did put pen to paper. He was the distinguished London drama critic Cyril Connolly, a large, pale man, fat and moonfaced, and extraordinarily out of place in the Serengeti. [see descriptions of Sandy Field and Hugh Lamprey.

Cyril Connolly described Sandy Field as "an ex-provincial governor, an astringent Wykehamical civil servant who is excellent company. He could be head of a Cambridge college, or an unflappable chief secretary in an Edwardian comedy; he prefers people to animals (an amiable eccentricity) and seems a shade too Stendhalian for the brute creation which forms the bulk of his satray."