Richard Maitland Laws CBE. 23 April 1926 — 7 October 2014

• Published in: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
• Main Authors: Croxall, John, Boyd, Ian, Parker, Ian, Cook, Geoffrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Maitland; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Elephant Seals; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0006; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0006

Dick Laws was the leading marine mammalogist of his generation, developing in the Antarctic new techniques and approaches to population studies, notably with elephant seals and great whales. He later pioneered similar approaches with large mammals, especially elephants, in Africa before returning to...