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.

Showing posts with label Edward Belcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Belcher. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Some Birds Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 1836-1842. John Gould’s Illustrations

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John Gould FRS (1804-1881) was responsible for the text and illustrations in the section on birds i n the Zoology volume, published in 1844....
Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Some Mammals Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 1836-1842. Some Original Colour Plates

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I mentioned in my last post the extensive collections made by the captains and assistant surgeon of the Royal Navy’s survey ship Sulphur , ...
Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Edward Belcher of the Royal Navy: Zoological collector, Hong Kong surveyor—and how to behave like an absolute ….

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Captain Edward Belcher (National Maritime Museum) Invigilating practical examinations was a bore. School pupils came to the University ...
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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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