Victor Stolan (born 1893) provided "the germ of the idea"[1] that led Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson with him to start the World Wildlife Fund.
[7] Victor Stolan, born 1893 in Czechoslovakia,[8] wrote to Julian Huxley, the author of three articles about the disappearance of wild life in Africa that first appeared on 13 November 1960 in The Observer with "The germ of the idea that was to result in the birth of the World Wildlife Fund".
[1] In this letter, dated 6 December 1960, Stolan argued that an international appeal aiming to raise millions of pounds should be set up on behalf of all wild species threatened by extinction.
[4] It "urged Huxley to put him in touch with a "single and uninhibited mind… with whom ideas can be developed and speedilly [sic] directed towards accumulating some millions of pounds without mobilising commissions, committees etc as there is no time for Victorian procedure".
[2] Huxley responded by putting him in contact with Max Nicholson who saw the logic of his argument and encouraged Victor to write a memorandum about setting up such a fund.