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.

Monday, 27 August 2018

Nelson Annandale and his eponymous turtle

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In my previous article I referred to Nelson Annandale’s survey of the ponds at Port Canning in India. But I had heard of the chelonian name...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

Can the Common Asian Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, live in saltwater?

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In my previous post on tadpoles of this species I left the question of whether adult Common Asian Toads, Duttaphrynus melanostictus , can...
Friday, 24 August 2018

Ronald Strahan in 1950s Hong Kong: Amphibians in saltwater

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I had a surprise when researching the recent article on Ronald Strahan. I discovered that Strahan had done a small piece of research in Ho...
Thursday, 16 August 2018

70 Years on: the Platinum Anniversary of the Solution to Milk Ejection by the Mammary Gland. Part 3: What do Myoepithelial Cells do in other Exocrine Glands?

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The German histologists of the 19th Century described myoepithelial cells in a number of exocrine glands including salivary, sweat and lacr...
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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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