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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Tuesday, 20 August 2019

China in the early decades of the 20th century: Who was Major Pereira?

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When researching the Duke of Bedford’s Exploration and the Fenwick-Owen hunting/collecting trip to China a name kept cropping up: Major Per...

Tuesday, 30 July 2019

The Golden Takin: who, what and when

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In previous posts I have described collecting and game shooting trips into the mountains of central China from which specimens were sent to...

Thursday, 25 July 2019

To Shoot a Golden Takin. George Fenwick-Owen’s big-game and zoological collecting expedition across China, 1911-1912

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In my article of 15 May 2019 I described Dr Jack Smith’s part in an expedition led and paid for by George Fenwick-Owen in China in 1911-...

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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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