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.

Monday, 21 April 2014

The Case of the Green Turtle. An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon by Alison Rieser

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I was intrigued by the title of his book. What had been ‘censored’ that could now be revealed was my first question. Even after wading thr...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Government Committees: A Lancelot Hogben Quote

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Lancelot Hogben (1895-1975) clearly loathed Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders (1886-1966), eugenicist and Director of the London School of Econo...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

In Search of a Penguin’s Egg. Why?

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Nelson Norman’s 2009 book, In Search of a Penguin’s Egg , worked its way to the top of my to-be-read pile and I found it a fascinating acc...
Thursday, 27 March 2014

Grant Museum at University College, London: a Must-See Museum of a Museum

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We managed a short visit to the Grant Museum of Zoology on a trip to London in February. The museum can only be described as excellent becau...
Sunday, 16 February 2014

The Art of the Soluble: The Ignorant Are Still Getting Medawar Wrong

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Just the other day I saw some ignoramus sounding off in a blog that Medawar was, by his labelling science (and the title of one of his books...
Thursday, 6 February 2014

Leeches in Sri Lanka: A Coincidence Shines the Light

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Last November, having got drenched from a sudden tropical shower, I was sheltering with others in the party at the entrance to Sinharaja For...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Russell's Viper (Daboia russelli) in Sri Lanka

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In my last post, I described how Burgess Barnett and Gwyn Macfarlane had found in the 1930s that the venom from Russell's Viper (now Dab...
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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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