Friday, 12 August 2022

Archaeology and herpetology: two species of terrapin at Butrint, Albania

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We have been to the archaeological site of Butrint—a UNESCO World Heritage Centre at the southern tip of Albania—twice, in 2010 and 2017. Fa...
Monday, 8 August 2022

Wildebeest in the Masai Mara

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White-bearded Wildebeest ( Connochaetes taurinus ) moving across the Masai Mara of Kenya in September 1991.
Friday, 5 August 2022

The early demise of the great physiologist, Ernest Starling: More light on the circumstances of his death on board ship off Jamaica in 1927?

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I have been doing some catching up reading. This time it was a book from 2005 on the embodiment of physiological discoveries in the early de...
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:...