Douglas Dewar
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Douglas Dewar (1875–1957) was a barrister, British civil servant in India and an ornithologist. He wrote widely in newspapers such as the The Madras Mail, Pioneer, Times of India and periodicals such as the Civil and Military Gazette and Bird Notes.[1]
[edit] Writings
He wrote several books especially on the birds of India including :
- Bombay Ducks
- Indian Birds
- Birds of the Plains
- Glimpses of Indian Birds.
He particularly advanced field studies of birds and he wrote in his "Birds of the Plains": "The ornithological world is peopled by two classes of human beings. There are those who study nature inside the museum with the microscope and scalpel and there are those who live to observe birds In the open and study their habits." He accuses the museum ornithologists of needlessly multiplying new species and altering names, too much attention being paid to local variations.[2]
He was a creationist and in 1957 he wrote The Transformist Illusion (Dehoff Publications, Tennessee; 1957; 306 pp.) in which he attempted to show the failure of evolution using examples such as the probability of proteins arising out of random mixing and blood group incompatibilities, many of the objections that were pointed out as incorrect by reviewers.[3]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Dewar, Douglas (1916) A bird calendar for northern India. Scanned book
- Dewar, Douglas (1913) Glimpses of Indian birds. Scanned book
- Dewar, Douglas (1908) Birds of the plains. Scanned book
- Dewar, Douglas (1906) Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado. Scanned book
- Dewar, Douglas () Animals of no importance. Scanned book
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