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, 17 May 2023

Ceylon or Sri Lankan Junglefowl: a colour plate from 1959

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In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance in...

Herbert Womersley: from industrial chemistry in Lancashire through amateur entomology to world-class expertise on mites in South Australia

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In my recent article on species of mite discovered on rats in Hong Kong by John Romer in the early 1950s I noted that they had been named by...
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Thursday, 27 April 2023

John Romer discovered other animals in Hong Kong: his eponymous chiggers, harvest-mites, scrub-typhus or itch mites

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From Wikipedia by Bugboy52.40 Until I received copies of gleanings from the ZSL Library archives by Jack Greatrex I had no knowledge of John...
Monday, 24 April 2023

There's a Goldcrest in the garage

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This Goldcrest ( Regulus regulus ) was spotted in the garage last week, trying to leave by flying though the glass and not by the door at ei...
Sunday, 23 April 2023

John Romer and the new species of amphibians he discovered in Hong Kong

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John Romer discovered three new species of amphibian in Hong Kong, and all three still stand as ‘good’ species. Amolops hongkongensis From ...
Friday, 21 April 2023

The White Scarab Beetle of Hong Kong. All done without pigment

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No. This beetle has not found itself too close to a brush full of brilliant white emulsion paint. It is that white or, more precisely, looks...
Monday, 17 April 2023

New Zealand Tomtit: a colour plate from 1961

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In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance in...
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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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