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, 18 August 2021

Captain Wall and the Lady’s Hong Kong Snake

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The Indian Medical Service had a distinguished history not only in its purpose of providing the medical requirements of the Indian army but ...
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Thursday, 12 August 2021

A Field Guide to the Snakes of Hong Kong. A new book

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Thirty four years ago I reviewed a book on the reptiles and amphibians of Hong Kong. Because of the efforts of three individuals, inspired b...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021

An uncommon Hong Kong butterfly

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Our Hong Kong correspondent sent this photograph of an uncommon butterfly seen this week in a park in Kowloon Tong. It is a swallowtail, Pap...
Monday, 9 August 2021

A Zoologist and Forgotten Pioneer of Endocrinology in Britain: Who was Mrs Bisbee?

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She published no papers on endocrinology and yet she was the mentor of pioneering endocrinologists who, in turn, disseminated research and t...
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Thursday, 5 August 2021

Is the intestinal spiral valve of cartilaginous fish a Tesla valve?

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Stand by, English ‘A’ level pupils of a certain age. You will not be able to read this article without a nostalgic whiff of formaldehyde ti...
Monday, 2 August 2021

‘On Deposit’ at London Zoo: A new essay on zoo history published

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I read with great interest but with some disagreement a recent paper in Archives of Natural History . The Patron’s Review is written by invi...
Wednesday, 28 July 2021

Salt glands in extinct marine reptilian killing machines

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A time traveller in  the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous, around 150 million years ago, would be wise to avoid the open sea, for there sh...
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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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