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.

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Another Zoo Quest to Komodo: the Burden Expedition of 1926

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The best-publicised expedition to Komodo in the early decades of the 20th Century was that led by William Douglas Burden (1898-1978). He off...
Friday, 25 August 2017

Lough Ine (Hyne) before Kitching and Ebling: Louis Renouf

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Louis Renouf (from Kearney*) The first to develop Lough Ine (or Hyne) in southern Ireland as a marine biological research station wa...
Sunday, 20 August 2017

1957-2017: The Diamond Jubilee of Salt Glands: Knut Schmidt-Nielsen’s co-authors

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In the last post I covered the history of the discovery of salt glands in birds by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen.  But who were his collaborators in...
Tuesday, 15 August 2017

1957-2017: The Diamond Jubilee of Salt Glands: Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's Major Discovery

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As i wrote in this post on Bill Sladen, this year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of salt glands by ...
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...
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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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