{"title":"Edward Emrys Watkin (1900–1978): marine zoologist and educator","authors":"P. Moore","doi":"10.3366/anh.2022.0797","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Welsh marine zoologist, Edward Emrys Watkin (1900–1978), studied the population dynamics of Cardigan Bay herring stocks in the 1920s and subsequently worked on amphipod crustaceans in the Clyde Sea Area in Scotland. His published works span a transitional period in the history of biology, when natural history was being formalized into ecology. A graduate, and a staff member, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, for 45 years he inspired students with his teaching. His experiences as a teacher and examiner were called upon when, in 1965 and 1971, he edited and co-wrote Biology (with Herbert Tisdale Conway and John Brinley Jones), a textbook on biology for pupils seeking the General Certificate of Education (GCE) O-level qualification. However, the impact of Watkins’s book was lessened because of competition from Donald Gordon Mackean’s Introduction to biology published first in 1962.","PeriodicalId":49106,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Natural History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archives of Natural History","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0797","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Welsh marine zoologist, Edward Emrys Watkin (1900–1978), studied the population dynamics of Cardigan Bay herring stocks in the 1920s and subsequently worked on amphipod crustaceans in the Clyde Sea Area in Scotland. His published works span a transitional period in the history of biology, when natural history was being formalized into ecology. A graduate, and a staff member, of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, for 45 years he inspired students with his teaching. His experiences as a teacher and examiner were called upon when, in 1965 and 1971, he edited and co-wrote Biology (with Herbert Tisdale Conway and John Brinley Jones), a textbook on biology for pupils seeking the General Certificate of Education (GCE) O-level qualification. However, the impact of Watkins’s book was lessened because of competition from Donald Gordon Mackean’s Introduction to biology published first in 1962.
威尔士海洋动物学家爱德华·埃姆里斯·沃特金(Edward Emrys Watkin, 1900-1978)在20世纪20年代研究了卡迪根湾鲱鱼种群的种群动态,随后在苏格兰克莱德海域研究了片脚类甲壳类动物。他发表的作品跨越了生物史上的一个过渡时期,当时自然史正被形式化为生态学。作为阿伯里斯特威斯威尔士大学学院的毕业生和教职员工,45年来,他的教学激励了学生。1965年和1971年,他与赫伯特·蒂斯代尔·康威和约翰·布林利·琼斯合编了一本《生物学》教科书,这本教科书是为寻求普通教育证书(GCE) o级资格的学生编写的。然而,由于唐纳德·戈登·麦基恩(Donald Gordon Mackean) 1962年首次出版的《生物学导论》(Introduction to biology)的竞争,沃特金斯这本书的影响力减弱了。
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Archives of Natural History (formerly the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History) publishes peer-reviewed papers on the history and bibliography of natural history in its broadest sense, and in all periods and all cultures. This is taken to include botany, general biology, geology, palaeontology and zoology, the lives of naturalists, their publications, correspondence and collections, and the institutions and societies to which they belong. Bibliographical papers concerned with the study of rare books, manuscripts and illustrative material, and analytical and enumerative bibliographies are also published.