Thursday, 28 July 2022

Walking amongst monkeys and Theodore Roosevelt’s policy: ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’

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With foreign affairs dominating the news for the first half of the year, now interrupted by incessant coverage of the self-inflicted local d...
Friday, 22 July 2022

Enthusiasm is not enough. Who said that about research?

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I never met Sir John Gaddum. He died in 1965, shortly after ill-health forced his retirement, three years before my arrival at the Institute...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Who was the photographer of British Amphibians and Reptiles, Walter S. Pitt?…continued

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Walter S. Pitt’s photographs were used to illustrate Malcolm Smith’s seminal book, The British Amphibians and Reptiles published by Collins...
Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Herbert M. Evans. The story of a biographical memoir and the art of implication

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Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971) was a big man, literally and metaphorically, in American biological research. His biographers wrote of him:...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

The Critically Endangered Chinese Pond or Yellow Terrapin. Hong Kong in the 1960s

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I noted when I reviewed the new book on the freshwater chelonians of Hong Kong that the Chinese Pond Terrapin, Mauremys mutica does not appe...
Sunday, 26 June 2022

A Field Guide to the Turtles of Hong Kong by Adam Francis. 2022, ISBN978-988-74587-2-2

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A welcome package from Hong Kong arrived. It contained the new, short (75-page) book on the freshwater chelonians of Hong Kong. This volume,...
Saturday, 28 May 2022

Mavis Gunther: infant feeding and the great personal tragedy in her life, the death of her husband, the zoologist Rolfe

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This is a story that for me began in the early 1970s. At a meeting, as I recall of the Society for Endocrinology, I was approached by a litt...
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