Saturday, 28 February 2015

Burgess Barnett. Curator of Reptiles, London Zoo 1932-37. UPDATE

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For my post on Burgess Barnett of 29 January 2014 I could not find a photograph of him. By chance I found one while looking through copies ...
Friday, 27 February 2015

Introduced Wall Lizard Colonies in England: How Do They Survive?

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Over the past hundred years or so, Wall Lizards ( Podarcis muralis , formerly Lacerta muralis ) that are native to many parts of continent...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Selfridge’s Aquarium: Who was Charles Schiller?

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In my post of 11 February on the short-lived Selfridges Aquarium of the late 1930s, I noted that the designer of the equipment was Mr Charl...
Thursday, 12 February 2015

Eric Thomas Brazil Francis (1900-1993). Zoologist

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This story starts in the 1999 when Kraig Adler was looking for photographs to illustrate the biographies of herpetologists for his series, ...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Selfridges’ Aquarium: ‘One of the Sights of London’

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I did not know that Selfridges, the Oxford Street store, once had a public aquarium. A Google search pulls up only one link—a reference in ...
Monday, 9 February 2015

Redstarts Again: Daurian in Hong Kong

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A flashy member of the same genus as the Black Redstart that is gracing Ayr's seafront this winter is the Daurian Redstart ( Phoenicurus...
Friday, 6 February 2015

Black Redstart Comes to Doonfoot in Ayrshire

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The Ayrshire coast sometimes has a Black Redstart visiting during the winter. This year an immature male is living in a small area north of ...