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Zoology: A natural history of natural historians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

M. S. Laverack
M. S. Laverack
Affiliation:
Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 8LB
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Extract

‘The appreciation and study of the Natural Sciences appear to have been of tardy growth in the North of Scotland’ (Traill 1906).

The origins of the study of zoology in the Universities of Scotland are reminiscent of evolutionary events. A shadowy beginning, periods of apparent stagnation, sudden transition into more active states, and latterly, a reversion and regrouping under modern financial pressures. Not a smooth progression, but rather a lurching progress and cladistic development!

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 84: Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland , 1983 , pp. 353 - 374
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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