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- London. Dec [December] 4/52 [1952]. Spent the day at the British
Museum where I devoted the morning to looking
up literature in the Library and the afternoon
to examining the birds of the Lyall collection
+ having a look round the dept [department] of mammals.
The division of birds under Mr [James David] Macdonald
seems to be well organized but lacking
ornithologists. The Division of mammals
seems to be in a hell of a mess, particularly
as regards the larger material. I gather that
[Terence] Morrison-Scott is strictly the closet systematist.
He has no very clear idea of the function
+ importance of Taxonomy as a branch of
modern zoology. His main approach seems
to be to classify mammals into groups
that do not seem to grade into one another
- these he views as species. If in doubt
he is a lumper every time. He states
for example that the red deer from Scotland
when taken to New Zealand became wapiti
therefore the two are the same species.
Too bad he doesn't get outdoors enough to
appreciate the animals as living organisms.
The chief joy there seems to be reviewing
literature + copying old books into new lists.
I heard the statement that copying one book
was cribbing; copying several was research while
getting others to copy them for you was directing
a project.
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