Tuesday, 15 September 2015

That's him! Harold Munro Fox. A personal mystery solved fifty years later

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Sometime early in 1965 I went for an interview for an overseas scholarship (overseas ones were funded by NATO) to work as a postgraduate stu...
Saturday, 12 September 2015

George Boyce (1920-95) of South Western Aquarists. Herpetologist

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Some people have an influence far wider than their formal qualifications or occupation would suggest. In the world of herpetology in Britai...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

A Giant Giant Salamander in Today's South China Morning Post

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My Hong Kong correspondent sent me a snippet ( as a follow up to my post of  17 December 2014 )  from today's South China Morning Post  ...
Monday, 31 August 2015

Giant Panda: life in the slow lane. But how?

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Most papers published in Science attract media attention. A number of articles picked up the story of studies on the metabolic rate of the...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 4. At London Zoo

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We know from the council minutes of the Zoological Society that when she died, Dorothy Sladden was working on Proteus anguinus , the cave-d...
Friday, 14 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 3. ...and Lamarck. Transference of Induced Food-Habit from Parent to Offspring in Stick Insects

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This series of three papers all published in Proceedings of the Royal Society and communicated by MacBride established that food preferenc...
Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 2. Frogs’ eggs, sports and monstrosities

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As well as for the inheritance of acquired characters, MacBride was also looking for environmental factors that caused mutations, in order,...