Why Study Biology by the Sea? Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Edited by Karl S. Matlin, Jane Maienschein, and Rachel A. Ankeny. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $135.00 (hardcover); $45.00 (paper). x + 355 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-67276-2 (hc); 978-0-226-67293-9 (pb); 978-0-226-67309-7 (eb). 2020.

2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Jo-Ann C. Leong
Keyword(s):  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Oscar Riddle’s Science, a Special Bird, & the Founding of the NABT

2013 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 678-681
Author(s):  
Frances S. Vandervoort
Keyword(s):  
National Association ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Domestic Pigeons

Oscar Riddle, born in Indiana in 1877, was an ardent evolutionist and a key player in the founding of the National Association of Biology Teachers in 1938. He studied heredity and behavior in domestic pigeons and doves with Charles O. Whitman of the University of Chicago, received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1907, and in 1912 began a long career at the Carnegie Institution. He is best known for his 1932 discovery of prolactin, the “mother love” hormone. Whitman founded and directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and cared for Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon, who died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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