b.1913. d. 2005. Writer and editor of natural history books, author of London's Natural History (1945) and contributor to birds of the London Area (1957).

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b.1934. Author of The Soil (1992). Educated at Sherborne and Aberdeen University reading zoology. Postgraduate research at Nottingham on soil fauna of reclaimed ironstone workings (PhD 1961).

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1875-1958. Physician and herpetologist, author of The British Amphibians and Reptiles (1951). Qualified doctor, medical officer to British Legation in Bangkok 1902-25, becoming Siamese court physician (related in A Physician at the .....

b.1942. Animal ecolofist, author of Heathlands (1986). Graduate of University of Wales, specialising in soil fauna of Danish heaths. In 1967 joined Nature Conservancy (now ITE) at Furzebrook research station .....

b.1944. Marine biologist, author of Seashore (2004). Man of Kent, though born in Lichfield. Began his career as scientific assistant in Natural History Museum, where introduced to his lifelong specialism, .....