Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

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Sunday, 2 February 2020

Clifford Emmens: Aquarist, Endocrinologist and the Natural History of Bombing

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Clifford Walter Emmens (from Biographical Memoir, AAS) To anybody keeping and breeding tropical fish from the 1950s until the 1990s, th...

Friday, 16 November 2018

London Zoo’s Aquarium: The End

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The news came in an email to Fellows: announcement of the inevitable end—after 96 years—of London Zoo’s Aquarium. Opened in 1924, it was th...

Thursday, 28 April 2016

Are all aquarium fishes equal?

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There is a branch of a nationwide pet store in town that sells aquarium fish. Well, sell is not quite the word. It will only sell to those ...

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Aquarists and Fish-keeping in the 20th Century. Part 6: Charles Schiller and the Hispaniola at Scarborough

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British seaside towns in the 1950s were in the business of attracting holidaymakers and animal exhibits of one kind or another often filled ...

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Malcolm Peaker: Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.

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