Sir Raymond Priestley and Professor J. B. Cragg

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Holdgate, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Priestley; Tickell; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000028; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247413000028

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.