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.

Sunday, 6 January 2019

Mycobacterium marinum—not just ‘fish-tank’ disease but a real occupational problem for the 20th Century fishing industry in Hong Kong

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I have caught a few diseases from animals over the years. The most irritating and long-lasting was  Mycobacterium marinum , aka fish tuberc...
Tuesday, 18 December 2018

The Not So Simple Shape of the Human Birth Canal

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Any scientific conversation on the process of giving birth in medical, veterinary and wild animal husbandry circles ends up on one topic: a...
Friday, 14 December 2018

Jim and Sylvia Tait, discoverers of aldosterone, on what's wrong with how science is funded

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I have been reading the excellent recent biographical memoir of James Tait FRS (1925-2014) written by Gavin Vinson and the late John Coghla...
Sunday, 9 December 2018

Joan Procter, Arthur Loveridge and the Pancake Tortoise. 2. Joan Procter in London: Structure of the shell and the question of defensive ‘inflation’

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Embed from Getty Images Not content with gross anatomical description, Joan Procter threw whatever modern technique she could find to ...
Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Some Birds Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 1836-1842. John Gould’s Illustrations

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John Gould FRS (1804-1881) was responsible for the text and illustrations in the section on birds i n the Zoology volume, published in 1844....
Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Some Mammals Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 1836-1842. Some Original Colour Plates

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I mentioned in my last post the extensive collections made by the captains and assistant surgeon of the Royal Navy’s survey ship Sulphur , ...
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 ...
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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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