Friday, 13 January 2017

Philippine Eagles, Philippine Monkeys, the President of the U.S.A. and Poliomyelitis

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In my article on visiting Manila Zoo in January 1967, I included a photograph I took of what is now know as the Philippine Eagle but more ...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

Butterfly Hunting assisted of a V-1 flying bomb

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In my article on Colonel Valentine Burkhardt and his entomological activities in the south of England during the 1940s, I referred to an ar...
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Thursday, 5 January 2017

Manila Zoo in January 1967 and the Critically-Endangered Tamaraw

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Fifty years ago today I walked along Roxas Boulevard from the Manila Hotel to the Zoo. I had arrived along with other Hongkongers on New Ye...
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...