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.

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Edward Belcher of the Royal Navy: Zoological collector, Hong Kong surveyor—and how to behave like an absolute ….

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Captain Edward Belcher (National Maritime Museum) Invigilating practical examinations was a bore. School pupils came to the University ...
Thursday, 22 November 2018

Joan Procter, Arthur Loveridge and the Pancake Tortoise. 1. Arthur Loveridge in Tanganyika

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To complete what I have to say about Joan Procter, I want to turn to what was then—and still is—regarded as her most important scientific i...
Friday, 16 November 2018

London Zoo’s Aquarium: The End

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The news came in an email to Fellows: announcement of the inevitable end—after 96 years—of London Zoo’s Aquarium. Opened in 1924, it was th...
Monday, 12 November 2018

Hong Kong Rodents: Huang’s Rat or Niviventer is back on the list

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In my post of 2 May 2013, I considered what had happened to the name of a beautiful species of rat that occurs in Hong Kong. For decades ...
Friday, 9 November 2018

Sea snakes and burrowing eels

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Sea snakes are fascinating animals. There were a number of dead ones pickled in jars in the old Northcote Science Building of the Universit...
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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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