I photographed this male Hong Kong Newt in 1966 within the outdated NorthcoteScience Constructing of the College of Hong Kong Within the literature the Hong Kong Newt is described thus:…
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Mr Fortune of the Chinese language Warty Newt, Backyard Crops and Tea
Robert Fortune In my final article I defined how John Edward Grey FRS (1800-1875) of the British Museum (Pure Historical past) in London obtained the 2 specimens he described in…
OUCH. Now that’s a e book evaluate. Bryan Clarke on ‘Of Moths and Males’ in 2003
Bryan Campbell Clarke FRS (1932-2014) was, from 1971, Professor of Genetics on the College of Nottingham. I solely met him as soon as. We fell into dialog at a night…
a color plate from 1961
Within the days when color printing was extraordinarily costly, the Avicultural Society had particular appeals for funds to assist the looks in Avicultural Journal of the occasional color plate. A…
The White Scarab Beetle of Hong Kong. All executed with out pigment
No. This beetle has not discovered itself too near a brush filled with sensible white emulsion paint. It’s that white or, extra exactly, appears to be like that white however,…
John Romer and the brand new species of amphibians he found in Hong Kong
John Romer found three new species of amphibian in Hong Kong, and all three nonetheless stand as ‘good’ species. Amolops hongkongensisFrom Flickr. Picture by Thomas Brown in 2011 Taking them…
There is a Goldcrest within the storage
This Goldcrest (Regulus regulus) was noticed within the storage final week, making an attempt to depart by flying although the glass and never by the door at both finish. It…
his eponymous chiggers, harvest-mites, scrub-typhus or itch mites
From Wikipediaby Bugboy52.40 Till I acquired copies of gleanings from the ZSL Library archives by Jack Greatrex I had no data of John Romer’s discovery of different animal species in…
from industrial chemistry in Lancashire by way of beginner entomology to world-class experience on mites in South Australia
In my latest article on species of mite found on rats in Hong Kong by John Romer within the early Nineteen Fifties I famous that they’d been named by Herbert…
a color plate from 1962
Within the days when color printing was extraordinarily costly, the Avicultural Society had particular appeals for funds to help the looks in Avicultural Journal of the occasional color plate. A…