Leonard Harrison Matthews

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Leonard Harrison Matthews, född 12 juni 1901 i Bristol, död 27 november 1986, var en engelsk zoolog.

Matthews studerade zoologi vid University of Cambridge och tog examen där 1922. Han gjorde ett stort antal forskningsresor under vilka han studerade djurlivet på bland annat Falklandsöarna, Antarktis och Arktis.[1] Matthews valdes in som ledamot (så kallad Fellow) i Royal Society 1954.[2]

Bibliografi[redigera | redigera wikitext]

  • 1931 – South Georgia, the Empire's Sub-Antarctic Outpost. John Wright & Sons: Bristol.
  • 1934 – The Marine Deposits of the Patagonian Continental Shelf. (Discovery Reports). Cambridge University Press.
  • 1937 – The Humpback whale, Megaptera Nodosa, (Discovery reports). Cambridge University Press.
  • 1938 – The Sei whale, Balaenoptera Borealis. (Discovery reports). Cambridge University Press.
  • 1938 – Notes on the Southern Right whale, Eubalaena Australis. (Discovery reports). Cambridge University Press.
  • 1938 – The Sperm whale, Physeter Catodon. (Discovery reports). Cambridge University Press.
  • 1939 – Reproduction in the Spotted Hyena. Cambridge University Press, for the Royal Society.
  • 1951 – Wandering Albatross: Adventures among the Albatrosses and Petrels in the Southern Ocean. London. Macgibbon & Kee, with Reinhardt & Evans: London.
  • 1952 – The British Amphibia and Reptiles. (Field study books series). Methuen: London.
  • 1952 – British mammals. (New Naturalist 21). Collins: London.
  • 1952 – Sea Elephant: The Life and Death of the Elephant Seal. MacGibbon & Kee: London.
  • 1956 – The sexual skin of the Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.
  • 1962 – History of Pharmacy in Britain. E. & S. Livingstone: Edinburgh.
  • 1963 – The Senses of Animals. (With Maxwell Knight). Scientific Book Club: London.
  • 1968 – The Whale. Allen & Unwin: London.
  • 1969-1971 – The Life of Mammals. (2 vols). Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London.
  • 1973 – Charles Waterton: Wanderings in South America. (Editor and Introduction). Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  • 1975 – Man and Wildlife. (Biology and Environment series). Croom Helm: London.
  • 1977 – Penguin. Adventures among the Birds, Beasts and Whalers of the Far South. Peter Owen: London.
  • 1978 – The Natural History of the Whale. Weidenfeld and Nicolson: London.
  • 1979 – The Seals and the Scientists. Peter Owen: London.
  • 1982 – Mammals in the British Isles. (New Naturalist 68). Collins: London.

Källor[redigera | redigera wikitext]

  1. ^ Nigel Bonner (1987). ”Leonard Harrison Matthews, MA, ScD, FRS: 1901–1986”. Journal of Zoology 213 (1): sid. 1-5. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1987.tb03671.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1987.tb03671.x/abstract. Läst 20 juli 2015. 
  2. ^ Richard Harrison (December 1987). ”Leonard Harrison Matthews. 12 June 1901-27 November 1986”. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 33: sid. 412-442. http://www.jstor.org/stable/769959. Läst 20 juli 2015.