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Graham Renshaw

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Dr Graham Renshaw FRSE FZS LRCP (1872–1952) was a 20th-century British physician and noted biologist. He was editor of the "Avicultural Magazine" from 1917[1] to August 1920[2] and editor of "Natureland".

Life

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Renshaw studied Medicine at the University of Manchester graduating MB.

In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Herbert Bolton, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Kidston and James Hartley Ashworth. He practiced medicine in Manchester and taught Zoology as an extramural subject at the University of Manchester.[3]

He was Vice President of the Manchester Medical Society.[4]

Renshaw published several books and many articles, for instance in The Zoologist.[5]

He died on 13 January 1952.

Publications

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  • The Avicultural Magazine.[6]
  • wikisource logo Renshaw, Graham (1901). "The True Quagga". The Zoologist. 4. 5 (716, February): 41–50.
  • wikisource logo —— (1901). "Notes on the Egyptian Jerboa (Dipus jaculus) in Captivity". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 5 (722, August): 305–309.
  • wikisource logo —— (1901). "The Blaauwbok (Hippotragus leucophæus)". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 5 (726, December): 441–448.
  • Natural History Essays. London : Sheratt & Hughes (1904)[7]
  • More Natural History Essays. London : Sheratt & Hughes (1905)[8]
  • Bird Life at Manchester Zoo (1920)

References

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  1. ^ Title page of vol. 24 of the Avicultural Magazine.
  2. ^ Title page of vol. 26 of the Avicultural Magazine.
  3. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. ^ Royal Society of Edinburgh Yearbook 1951/2
  5. ^ For instance in The Zoologist of 1901 he published about the quagga ('The True Quagga,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 5, issue 716 (February, 1901), p. 41–50).
  6. ^ The Avicultural Magazine in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), from vol. 1 (1894). See also: Index of Articles (1894–2003)], at the website of The Avicultural Society.
  7. ^ Renshaw 1904: OCLC 9184315; 2nd ed. 1905 (OCLC 191962400
  8. ^ Renshaw 1905: OCLC 5398544