Background
Hardy, Alister Clavering was born on February 10, 1896 in Nottingham, England. Son of Richard Hardy.
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Volume 1: Comprehensive discussion of the fauna and flora of the open sea - fishes, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and others. Concentrates on waters adjacent to the British Isles. Nb. Part I is New Naturalist No. 34, and Part II, No. 37. Chapters include; the movement of the waters; plants of the plankton; seasons in the sea; introducing the zooplankton; little jellyfish and lesser forms of life; siphonophores and the larger jellyfish; more animals of the plankton - but not the crustaceans; the planktonic crustacea; pelagic larval forms; the puzzle of vertical migration; life in the depths; phosphorescence and photophores; squids, cuttlefish and kin; plankton and the fisheries. Volume II: This seoncd volume discusses the fishing industry of th eday and its problems, devoting one eleventh-hour chapter to 'The Over-Fishing Problem'. Another chapter is 'The Ecologists and the Future', by which we can judge ourselves in retrospect. The introduction contains a summary of Volume I. Nb. Part I is New Naturalst No. 34, and Part II, No. 37. Chapters include; on fish in general; the herring and the herring fisheries; other pelagic fish; benthos - life on the ocean floor; more about the benthos, and its relation to the fisheries; the trawl, line and seine-net fisheries; the story of the plaice; hags, hounds, sharks and skates; bottom-living bony fish; hake, haddock, cod and co.; parasitic profusion; the over-fishing problem; marine reptiles - fact and fancy; whales, walruses and 'wild' men; the ecologists and the future.
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Hardy, Alister Clavering was born on February 10, 1896 in Nottingham, England. Son of Richard Hardy.
Master of Arts; Doctor of Science, Oxford University, England. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Southampton, England. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Hull, England.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Oxford University Biological Scholar Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 1920. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Aberdeen, Scotland.
University of Oxford biological scholar Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 1920. Assistant naturalist department fisheries British Ministry Agriculture and Fisheries, 1921-1924. Chief zoologist to Discovery Expedition, 1924-1928.
Professor zoology and oceanography University College, U. Hull, 1928-1942.
Regius professor natural history U. Aberdeen, 1942-1945, Gifford lecturer, 1963-1965. Linacre professor zoology University of Oxford, 1946-1961, professor zoological field studies, 1961-1963, founder, director religious experience research unit Manchester College, 1969-1976, professor emeritus U. Oxford, 1976.
Fellow Merton College, University of Oxford, 1946-1963, now honorary fellowship Honorary fellow Exeter College, University of Oxford.
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Served to captain British Northern Cyclist Battalion, 1915-1919.
Married Sylvia Lucy, 1927. 2 children.