Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

The marine biological station of the University of Liverpool at Port Erin, Isle of Man: a new wing, and a new research vessel

1968 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
J. S. Colman ◽  
A. B. Bowers
Keyword(s):  
Irish Sea ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Public Aquarium ◽  
Small Stone ◽  
The Irish Sea ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Set Up ◽  
New Research ◽  
The University

The origins of the Marine Biological Station go back to 1885, when Professor, later Sir William, Herdman organized the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee. The Committee conducted dredging excursions in the Irish Sea, and also set up a very small shore laboratory on Puffin Island (off Anglesey) from 1887 to 1891. In 1892 activities were transferred to two small stone buildings (which still exist—see Pl. III) on Port Erin Bay. After nine years these buildings had become quite inadequate to accommodate the growing numbers both of visiting naturalists and of vacation classes which were started at Port Erin in 1897, so a further move was made to the present site at the south-west corner of Port Erin Bay in 1902.In 1919 the control and ownership of the Marine Biological Station was transferred from the L.M.B.C. to the University of Liverpool; until 1939 the Station formed part of the Department of Oceanography, from 1939 to 1949 it was part of the Department of Zoology, and since 1950 it has formed a separate Department of the University.The original building of 1902, whose whole seaward frontage still remains virtually unaltered (Pl. I), consisted of a central public aquarium (now room 5 on Text-fig. 1) flanked by a sea-fish hatchery (now 8, 9) and a few small research rooms (2,3,4,6,7), with two sizeable laboratories for student classes on the first floor (45–47 and 28, 30–32 on Text-fig. 2). A very valuable asset consisted of three large open-air ponds which still, after 65 years, perform their original function of maintaining a breeding stock of some 200 adult plaice.

Victorian natural scientists overlooking the Firth of Clyde: a rare, early group-photograph decoded

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Association ◽  
Early Group ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
World Class ◽  
Natural Scientists ◽  
The University

The identities of four eminent nineteenth-century naturalists together in an old photograph on display at the University Marine Biological Station at Millport are revealed as Professor R. A. von Kölliker, Dr W. B. Carpenter FRS, Professor W. Sharpey FRS and Professor J. H. Balfour FRS. Brief biographies are provided. It is suggested that the photograph dates from the British Association for the Advancement of Science's meeting in Glasgow in September 1855. The venue seems likely to have been Carpenter's rented “cottage” on Holy Island, which provided a base for marine biological investigations in the adjacent Lamlash Bay, Arran. The historical significance of this notable early photograph resides in the evidence it confers regarding the relationships between these world-class scientific figures.

scholarly journals The History of the Foundation of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1887 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

In the ‘Times,’ March 31st, 1884, appeared the following article:Biological station, some may be inclined to think, is simply Aquarium “writ large.” The two certainly do coincide to some extent j a biological station aa a rule implies an aquarium, but it includes a great deal more. In the early days of public aquaria, some twenty-five years ago, and down indeed to more recent times, attempts were made to utilise these institutions for scientific purposes, and biologists hoped that great results would follow from their establishment. It was in 1860 that the late Mr. Lloyd designed an aquarium for Paris, and two years later a similar one for Hamburg. Others soon followed, both in this country and on the Continent, nearly all of them constructed on the method devised by Mr. Lloyd, and several of them under his direct superintendence. Probably the earliest on a large scale in this country was the well-known establishment at the Crystal Palace, to the management of which Mr. Lloyd succeeded on the death of Mr. J. K. Lord.

scholarly journals A Text Become Provisional: Revisiting The Capital of the Ruins

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Davies
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This essay is a reexamination of Samuel Beckett's The Capital of the Ruins, the untransmitted radio script written for Raidió Éireann (now Raidió Teilifís Éireann) in 1946 following his work with the Irish Red Cross in Saint Lô. The first half of this essay is concerned with the archival and publishing history of the text. This section examines the variants introduced by various editors or publishers and makes a case for a definitive edition of the text based on the edited photocopy of the typescript held in the Beckett International Foundation archive at the University of Reading. The second half of this essay then uses this close attention to the text to reconsider the focus of The Capital of the Ruins and the extent to which the piece is more firmly directed towards socio-political aspects of post-neutrality Ireland than has previously been identified.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document