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under a Vans Dunlop scholarship. Influenced by Arthur Strickland he became interested in soil zoology. In 1943 he received the Associateship of the Imperial College of Agriculture and posted as entomologist to Kenya. During the war he served briefly and married Private Kathleen Luckin. In Kenya, he
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MIB (31 October 1920 – 9 July 1991) was a British zoologist and entomologist, who worked in Trinidad, East Africa and Canada. He published several books including on ethnoentomology and entomological poetry.
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He had successful heart by-pass surgery in 1976 and retired in 1986. He died of a heart attack on 9 July 1991, and was survived by his wife Kathleen and three sons,
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In 1948, he resigned from African service and returned to Britain as a lecturer in agricultural zoology at the
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on 31 October 1920 during what is thought to have been an extended business trip on the part of his father,
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at both primary (prep school) and secondary levels, 1925 to 1937. He then studied Sciences at the
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002
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served with the East-African Anti-Locust Directorate and several times ate
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and continued studies at Imperial College, St Augustin, in
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graduating with a BSc in 1941. He left Britain during the
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FRSE
Helsinki
Finland
Douglas Keely Kevan
George Watson's College
Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Second World War
Trinidad
Benzene Hexachloride
University of Nottingham
Royal Society of Edinburgh
James Ritchie
Alexander David Peacock
Sir Michael Swann
Greville Friend
McGill University
Canada
Quebec
Sigma Xi
Peter G. Kevan
Martin Kevan
"In Memory. Douglas Keith McEwen Kevan"
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002
ISBN
0-902-198-84-X
the original
"Douglas Keith McEwan Kevan"
doi
10.1093/ae/37.4.253

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