Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Mabel Hokin and Salt Glands: My sad demolition of a biochemical treasure

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Having worked on bird salt glands in Hong Kong I arrived at Babraham in October 1968 to work on the mammary gland and the mechanism of milk...
Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Through the Lion Gate. A History of Berlin Zoo by Gary Bruce. Oxford University Press 2017

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Readers of books on the history of zoos are looking for different things. Some want a social history of a zoo and its place in the societ...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

‘Go extinct' or 'Become extinct'

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The week before last the pens of the retired admirals of Budleigh Salterton were spluttering their contents onto paper. The Times , in an ...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Ultraviolet Exposure of Insects and Vitamin D Synthesis. An intriguing study from 1934 is answered in 2018

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Earlier in the year I was looking up articles in old magazines when I my eye shot towards a tiny snippet at the foot of a page: VIOLET ...
Saturday, 8 September 2018

Crimson Finch - a beautiful Australian bird

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I couldn’t resist taking video of Crimson Finches while birdwatching along the edge of Lily Creek Lagoon in Kununnura, on the eastern edge ...
Friday, 7 September 2018

Genomic signatures of human commensalism in House Sparrows; but what about urban Tree Sparrows?

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News media have been reporting the results of a paper published recently on the genome of the House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus )*. It is l...
Thursday, 6 September 2018

Professor Harry Norman Green in a tragic aircraft accident in 1927, says Wikipedia. NO, it was a different Harry Norman Green, of the Royal Aircraft Establishment

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In researching the story of Professor Harry Norman Green and his work on traumatic shock during the Second World War I came across an intri...