Saturday, 12 August 2017

The Kitching-Ebling split, Lough Ine (Hyne) and Reflections on a Summer Sea

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Scientific divorces, whether of long-term collaborators, scientist and technician or scientist and past research student,  are horrendous—bo...
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Sunday, 6 August 2017

Bill Sladen (1920-2017): Penguins and Salt Glands

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A number obituaries of William Joseph Lambart Sladen who died on 29 May aged 96 have been published in recent weeks. While they all record h...
Saturday, 5 August 2017

Charles Eliot: languages, embassies, universities and nudibranch molluscs

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It is difficult to believe that Sir Charles Eliot (1862-1931) who achieved great distinction in languages, culture and comparative religion...
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...