Obituary
Nachruf Beadle, Leonard Clayton (1905-1985)
McLachlan, Athol
Archiv für Hydrobiologie Volume 108 Number 4 (1987), p. 583 - 587
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published: Feb 17, 1987
DOI: 10.1127/archiv-hydrobiol/108/1987/583
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Abstract
With the death of LEONARD BEADLE in September 1985, the world of freshwater biology lost a major pioneering spirit. He had a life-long interest in the tropics which began in the middle of his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University with his participation in an expedition to South America, in 1926. Four years later he arrived for the first time in Africa, as a member of a Cambridge University expedition to the East African lakes. Thereafter he returned to Africa three times: to Algeria in 1938 to work on the biology of saline waters and oases, to Uganda in 1949 where he was head of the Zoology Department of Makerere University and Trustee of Uganda National Parks until his retirement in 1966 and, finally, as advisor to the Royal Society International Biological Programme project on Lake George in Uganda. In 1967 he was awarded the OBE for his lifetime's work in Africa.
Keywords
Nachruf • book reviews