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, 29 May 2019

Animal and Zoo Magazine 1936-41. Part 2. Some of the authors of fact and fiction

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Major R. W. G. Hingston R.W.G. Hingston at a meeting of entomologists in 1923 In the first article of the first issue, under the ti...

Monday, 27 May 2019

Animal and Zoo Magazine 1936-41. Part 1: Everything about animals

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The cover of the first issue, Jane 1936 This is the first of a series of articles on a monthly magazine published from 1936 until 1941 ...

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Monday, 20 May 2019

‘I believe it to be impossible to breed genuine wild animal under artificial conditions as to stand in a bucket of water and pick oneself up’. Helen Spurway’s original and neglected work from 1952

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The breeding of wild animals in captivity is managed to maintain genetic diversity. Everybody knows that from television programmes on zoos...

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

The Duke of Bedford’s Zoological Exploration of Eastern Asia in the 1900s—3. Who was Dr J.A.C.Smith?

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On 15 May I posted a draft of this article. This version (9 June) for reasons explained below is a far more complete account. The Epon...

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Malcolm Peaker: 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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