Saturday, 31 December 2016

Valentine Burkhardt and Natasha du Breuil—Major Updates to Previous Articles

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The articles on Colonel Valentine Burkhardt and Natasha du Breuil have been updated, thanks to information, paintings, drawings and photo...
Saturday, 17 December 2016

Rock landscaping, the Pulham family company and London Zoo

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The Victorians loved rockeries, grottos and ferneries in their gardens. It is known that in the early years of the 20th Century, the fami...
Monday, 5 December 2016

Wolf Suschitzky, contributor to Animal and Zoo Magazine in the 1930s, has died aged 104

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It is difficult to imagine that a photographer whose work appeared in magazines nearly 80 years ago was alive until a few weeks ago. Wolfga...
Thursday, 24 November 2016

Henry Mellish and the Nottingham Naturalists’ Society

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The only time boys were admitted through the front entrance and the vestibule was when they were late. Once there they were met by a prefect...
Monday, 21 November 2016

Scientists and Social Mobility

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There was a great deal in the newspapers last week about the current lack of social mobility in Britain. At the same time I finished read...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

Endocrine Evolution, P.B. Medawar and F.L. Hisaw: Unravelling Who Said What and When

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A shorter version of this article recently appeared in The Endocrinologist (Autumn 2016, issue 121, page 34)(Society for Endocrinology). ...
Friday, 4 November 2016

In the Margins. Comments on zoologists in London’s Natural History Museum

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The Newsletters and Journals of the Society for the History of Natural History usually make a good read. The December 2015 Newsletter co...
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