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.

Sunday, 23 July 2017

Komodo Dragons: The Moyne Zoo Quest Expedition of 1934-5 and Lady Broughton’s photographs

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One way to get animals from faraway places in the early decades of the 20th Century was to get the super-rich of the day to collect them. On...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster. A second biography of the MI5 officer, amateur naturalist and broadcaster

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Like London buses, you wait for ages and then two come along. Well, not quite because there is a gap of 33 years between these two but the...
Thursday, 6 July 2017

Komodo Dragons in the 1930s: a zoo quest before ‘Zoo Quest’ with links to Adolf Hitler, nazi spy scares, the FBI, a cuckolded husband and John F Kennedy

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I was mystified when I came across an article in the June 1939 edition of Animal and Zoo Magazine . I have read a fair bit both scientific a...
Tuesday, 6 June 2017

How did he come to write that?

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My eye, in speed reading a review of a biography of Sir Hans Sloane in The Times (Saturday 27 May), came to a sudden halt: Sloane was no...

Komodo Dragon: extending the saliva story

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The previous post generated a number of emails on the use of biologically-active substances in saliva by the Komodo Dragon to help kill its ...
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Saturday, 20 May 2017

Komodo Dragons. A peaceful morning in the Komodo National Park and an acrimonious debate on reptilian venoms

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Last September’s Expedition Cruise from Darwin through the Lesser Sunda islands of East Timor and Indonesia included stops at Rinca and Komo...
Monday, 8 May 2017

Burkhardt and Vevers: Family Links in the Early 20th Century

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Late last year James Ritchie contacted me after reading my articles on Colonel Valentine Burkhardt (12 April 2016) and Dr Gwynne Vevers (4...
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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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