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Sir Raymond Priestley and Professor J. B. Cragg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2013

Martin Holdgate*
Affiliation:
Fell Beck, Hartley, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria CA17 4JH (martin.holdgate@googlemail.com)

Abstract

A mystery surrounds the failure to appoint Professor J.B. Cragg of Durham University as biological supervisor to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958. In a recent note in this journal Dr Lance Tickell argues that Sir Raymond Priestley is unlikely to have been responsible. Cragg's approach was, however, closely followed by the present author between 1961 and 1966 in the programme based on Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

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