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&...