The rise
of experimental zoology in Britain in
the 1920s: Hogben, Huxley, Crew,
and the Society
for Experimental Biology
PhD-thesis,
University of Manchester, 2005
Steindor J. Erlingsson
Francis Crew -- Lancelot Hogben -- Julian Huxley
See the following papers
The Plymouth Laboratory
and the Institutionalization of Experimental Zoology in Britain in the 1920s
The costs of being a
restless intellect: Julian Huxley’s popular and scientific career in the
1920s.
Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................... 5
Declaration......................................................................................................................... 6
Copyright statement........................................................................................................... 7
Preface................................................................................................................................ 8
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 10
Zoology in the US at the turn of the 20th
century............................................................... 13
Botany in the UK at the turn of the 20th
century................................................................ 26
New Botany................................................................................................................ 27
Newer Botany............................................................................................................. 33
Discipline Building........................................................................................................... 44
Thesis content................................................................................................................. 47
1. Zoology in
Britain 1895-1916: An Overview............................................................... 50
Morphology.................................................................................................................... 53
Comparative physiology.................................................................................................. 64
Experimental Embryology................................................................................................ 71
2. The Physiology
Department at Plymouth.................................................................... 87
The Plymouth Laboratory 1888-1928.............................................................................. 88
The Ray Lankester Fund and the Development Commission............................................. 92
The Plymouth Laboratory and General Physiology............................................................ 99
The influence of the Plymouth Laboratory on
Experimental Zoology................................ 113
3. Backdrop to the
SEB: Huxley, Crew and Hogben in the 1920s............................... 120
Crew............................................................................................................................ 122
Hogben......................................................................................................................... 127
Huxley.......................................................................................................................... 141
The King’s College zoology chair................................................................................... 162
4. Institutional
Autonomy: A Journal and a Society..................................................... 168
A journal: Crew and Hogben versus Huxley................................................................... 170
The BJEB
solution......................................................................................................... 174
The Society for Experimental Biology............................................................................. 182
The Genetical, Zoological and Linnean Societies............................................................. 188
5. Institutional
Tensions: BJEB v. Biological Proceedings and BJEB v. SEB.......... 197
1923-1925: BJEB......................................................................................................... 198
1925: BJEB versus Biological Proceedings..................................................................... 206
1926-1933: BJEB
versus SEB...................................................................................... 217
Experimental zoology versus morphology....................................................................... 224
Conclusion....................................................................................................................... 235
Appendix 1: Programs
of Meetings of the SEB, 1923-1928........................................ 245
1923............................................................................................................................. 245
1924............................................................................................................................. 249
1925............................................................................................................................. 254
1926............................................................................................................................. 256
1927............................................................................................................................. 262
1928............................................................................................................................. 270
Appendix 2: Papers
published in the BJEB, Vols. 1-6.................................................. 276
Volume One.................................................................................................................. 276
Volume Two................................................................................................................. 279
Volume Three............................................................................................................... 282
Volume Four................................................................................................................. 284
Volume Five.................................................................................................................. 287
Volume six.................................................................................................................... 290
Appendix 3: The
Company of Biologists Ltd................................................................ 293
G. P. Bidder’s first draft of the business scheme
behind COB......................................... 293
Financial position of the first ten volumes of (B)JEB........................................................ 294
Appendix 4: General
Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory..................................... 296
Plymouth related GP publications 1889-1928................................................................ 296
Names of table occupants doing GP 1910-30................................................................ 299
Data on the Institutional distribution of table
occupants 1919-1930................................. 302
Occupants categorised by
universities........................................................................ 302
Occupants doing General
Physiology......................................................................... 303
Bibliography.................................................................................................................... 304
Unpublished Sources..................................................................................................... 304
Published Sources......................................................................................................... 309