Michael James Delany

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Michael James Delany (born 1928 in Manchester , North West England , † March 3, 2013 ) was a British zoologist and ecologist . His main research interests were entomology and mammalogy .

Life

Delany graduated from the William Hulmes School in Manchester and obtained a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Master of Science in 1952 at the University of Manchester . From 1950 to 1953 he was a research assistant at the University of Exeter . From 1953 to 1954 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Florida . Here he examined, among other things, microorganisms that were responsible for fish deaths in the Gulf of Mexico . He also dealt with the insect orders of the shaggy tails (Thysanura) and the double tails (Diplura), about which he published the booklet Thysanura and Diplura in the series Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects of the Royal Entomological Society in 1954 . From 1954 to 1956 he was assistant in zoology at the University of Glasgow and in 1956 lecturer in vertebrate zoology at the University of Exeter. From 1956 to 1965 he was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Southampton .

In 1951 he first visited East Africa and in 1965 he was appointed professor of zoology at Makerere College in Kampala and deputy director of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology in Queen Elizabeth National Park , Uganda .

In 1967 he received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Glasgow. In 1969 he returned to England and after a stay as Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton from 1971 onwards he moved to the Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of Bradford in 1976 . After his premature resignation in 1985, he was appointed to the Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat , Oman , in 1987 , where he established the chair for biology and conducted studies on small Arab mammals .

In 2000, his autobiography Animal Quest: A Naturalist of Four Continents was published in collaboration with the illustrator Virgina Clucas .

Delany was a member of the Linnean Society of London , the Zoological Society of London , the Mammal Society , the British Ecological Society , Sigma Xi , the Uganda Society , the East African Wildlife Society, the Zoological Society of Southern Africa, and the Zambian Wildlife Society.

Dedication names

In 1962, Robert William Hayman named the generic epithet of Delany's swamp climbing mouse ( Delanymys brooksi ) after Michael James Delany, who collected the holotype in September 1961 near the town of Kigezi in southwest Uganda.

Fonts (selection)

  • with BR Neal: A Review of The Muridae (Order Rodentia) of Uganda , The British Museum, 1966
  • Studies in Biology: Ecology of Small Mammals , Edward Arnold, 1974
  • The Rodents of Uganda , The British Museum, 1975
  • with David Happold : Tropical Ecology Series: Ecology of African Mammals , Longman Higher Education, 1979
  • Tertiary Level Biology: Mammal Ecology , Blackie Academic & Professional, 1982
  • Yorkshire Mammals , University of Bradford, 1985
  • The zoogeography of the mammal fauna of southern Arabia In: Mammal Review 19 (4), 1989, pp. 133-152
  • Chapter Rodents and Lagomorphs In: Edwin Gould & George McKay (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Animals: Mammals Gallerie Books, New York City, 1990, ISBN 0-8317-2788-8 , pp. 214-231
  • Animal Quest: A Naturalist of Four Continents , Capponnellan Press, 2000

literature

  • Robert Bradfield: Who's Who in Education, Mercury House References Books, 1974, p. 219
  • Edwin Gould, George McKay: Encyclopedia of Animals: Mammals Gallery Books, 1990; ISBN 0-8317-2788-8 (short biography on p. 234)
  • Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; Pp. 105-106; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries In: Avenue - The magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow , Issue 56, June 2014, p. 26
  2. ↑ RW Hayman: A new genus and species of African Rodent. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 65, 1962, pp. 129-138
personal data
SURNAME Delany, Michael James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , North West England
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2013