John Martin Boyd

John Morton Boyd Order of the British Empire CBE, Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE (published as J. Morton Boyd; 31 January 1925 – 25 August 1998) was a Scottitish zoologist, author, and Conservation movement conservationist. Quotes The 1870s saw the awakening of a desire among scientists to become more highly organized. The influence of Huxley and Darwin among others had spread north and the tangible outcome was the botanical papers by John Hutton Balfour J. H. Balfour and Cardale Babington C. C. Babington (1882-84) and James W. H. Trail J. W. H. Trail (1898-1909). Within this upsurge of interest came the John Alexander Harvie-Brown Harvie-Brown and Buckley Fauna (1888) and work on the freshwaters by Scott (1891), followed by the Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Freshwater Lochs by John Murray (oceanographer) Sir John Murray and Laurence Pullar (1910). This was perhaps the first great work of the modern scientific era in the Outer Hebrides and is still the baseline for work on freshwaters, to which little has since been added. Boyd, John Martin Introduction by John Martin Boyd Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 77 [papers from a symposium, 11–12 October 1977] The Natural Environment of the Outer Hebrides 1979 3–19 10.1017/S0269727000012604 https://scispace.com/pdf/the-natural-environment-of-the-outer-hebrides-38mewkxwf1.pdf (quote from p. 4) The Boreray sheep have survived for 50 years without interference by man and maintain high density on rich maritime pastures heavily manured by seabirds. They are a Scottish Blackface blackface breed obtained from a cross between old Scottish shortwool and early blackface sheep. There is a population of about 400 on about 55 Hectare ha of pasture and the rams and ewes (with lamb and yearling rams) run in separate groups. The survival of rams is poor compared with ewes with an adult sex-ratio of about 10 ewes to 1 ram. Numbers of sheep fluctuate between 330 and 460 without causing sheet erosion, landslipping and disruption of the vegetation. The conservation plan for Boreray rests on continued non-interference with the sheep and no sheep should be introduced to the island. Biological Conservation 20 3 July 1981 215–227 The Boreray sheep of St Kilda, outer hebrides, Scotland: The natural history of a feral population 10.1016/0006-3207(81)90030-6 Nature conservation Conservation of nature is a culture of the twentieth century possessing its own philosophical, ethical and scientific frame which is distinct from those of agriculture, forestry and other producer Industry (economics) industries. In the latter, conservation is directed towards the creation and maintenance of the quality and quantity of the product, be it cereal, wood pulp or automobiles; in the former, nature conservation is directed towards the maintenance of numbers of different species distributed in different assemblages of natural or semi-natural type and towards the care of geological and physiographical features. Nature conservation by John Morton Boyd Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences, Volume 84 Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland 1983 295–336 10.1017/S0269727000013841 External links John Martin Boyd Herald and Times Archive (heraldscotland.com) https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12341102.john-morton-boyd/ Category:1925 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Autobiographers from Scotland Category:Environmentalists from Scotland Category:Naturalists from Scotland Category:Non-fiction authors from Scotland Category:Ornithologists Category:Science authors Category:University of Glasgow alumni Category:Zoologists from the United Kingdom Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire