John Graham Kerr

John Graham Kerr Sir John Graham Kerr Fellow of the Royal Society FRS, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE, Linnean Society of London FLS, Zoological Society of London FZS (published as J. Graham Kerr; 18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957) was a British embryologist, Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow, and Unionist Party (Scotland) Unionist Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) Member of Parliament (MP). Quotes The majority of fishes produce Egg#Eggs of different animal groups eggs in enormous numbers, amounting in some cases to several millions, and correlated with this the size of the individual egg has become much reduced. The average diameter of a Teleostean egg may be taken as about 1 Millimetre mm. In an egg of this size segmentation of so markedly meroblastic a character would be puzzling except on the hypothesis that the meroblastic condition had arisen in ancestral forms in which the eggs were much larger. Text-book of Embryology Volume II. Vertebrata with the Exception of Mammalia Macmillan & Company 1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsZDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA20 20 (dedicated to the memory of Charles Darwin, Francis Balfour, and Adam Sedgwick; text at archive.org) The general lecture course in University of Glasgow School of Medicine, Dentistry %26Nursing#History Glasgow is accompanied by laboratory work extending over a hundred hours. In great part this follows the usual lines such as are laid down in Arthur Milnes Marshall Marshall and Hurst’s Text-book, but a special feature is made of the study of a valuable series of demonstration specimens. This includes the study, under high-power Water immersion objective immersion objectives, of such organisms as Trypanosoma Trypanosomes, Malaria#Cause Malarial Parasites, Leishmanias, and Spirochaetes. Experience has shown that students fully appreciate the privilege of being able to examine such preparations for themselves, and that they take the greatest care not to do damage. Opportunities are also given for seeing Trypanosomes, Miracidium Miracidia, Cercariae and so on, in the living condition. This demonstration part of the course is regarded as being of special value in arousing and gripping the interest of the student. Preface v–viii Zoology for Medical Students Macmillan & Company 1921 https://books.google.com/books/about/Zoology_for_Medical_Students.html?id=ehLm5Oh_CgMC&pg=PR7 (quote from p. vii; 485 pages; text at archive.org) Imperfect as is the geological record, how infinitely more imperfect must necessarily be our knowledge of that record! The largest Mining mines, Quarry quarries, and other excavations made by man, are in themselves relatively insignificant scratches on the surface of the vast mass of fossil-bearing rocks, but yet how small a fraction of the material obtained in such excavations ever passes under the detailed scrutiny of the palaeontologist. Evolution London Macmillan & Company 1926 https://books.google.com/books?id=w_xRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA27 27 Quotes about John Graham Kerr He once jokingly referred to the report, published in Nature (journal) Nature, of his award of the Linnean Gold Medal in 1955 as "a very pleasant obituary notice". Hugh B. Cott, Obituary. Sir John Graham Kerr, F.R.S. June 8, 1957 179 4571 1164–1165 https://www.nature.com/articles/1791164a0.pdf (quote from p. 1165) External links Murphy, Hugh; Bellamy, Martin The Dazzling Zoologist: John Graham Kerr and the Early Development of Ship Camouflage The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord XIX 2 April 2009 171-192 https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol19/tnm_19_171-192.pdf Category:1869 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:University of Edinburgh alumni Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Glasgow faculty Category:Zoologists from the United Kingdom