The Plymouth Laboratory and the Institutionalization
of Experimental Zoology in Britain in the 1920s |
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Authors: | Steindór J Erlingsson |
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Institution: | (1) Svarthamrar 9, 112 Reykjavik, Iceland |
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Abstract: | The Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1884) was founded in 1888. In addition
to conducting morphological and other biological research, the founders of the laboratory aimed at promoting research in experimental
zoology which will be used in this paper as a synonym for e.g. experimental embryology, comparative physiology or general
physiology. This dream was not fully realized until 1920. The Great War and its immediate aftermath had a positive impact
on the development of the Plymouth Laboratory. The war greatly upset the operation of the Zoological Station in Naples and
the ensuing crisis in its operations was closely related to the establishment of the physiological department in Plymouth
in 1920. Two other key factors in the Plymouth story were the establishment of the Development Fund in 1909, which began contributing
funds to the Plymouth Laboratory in 1912, and the patronage of the Cambridge zoologist George P. Bidder (1863–1954). This
paper will focus on the combined influence of the Development Fund and Bidder on the development of the Plymouth Laboratory
from around 1902 through the early 1920s, and the important role the laboratory played in promoting experimental zoology in
Britain in the 1920s. |
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Keywords: | zoological station Naples physiological laboratory Plymouth Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom experimental zoology Development Fund George P Bidder Lancelot Hogben Edgar J Allen Ray Lankester Investigatorship |
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