Kenneth Mellanby

Major Kenneth Mellanby CBE^[1] (26 March 1908 – 23 December 1993) was an ecologist and entomologist who, in 1961, founded and served as director of the Monks Wood Experimental Station, an ecological research center in Huntingdon, England. He started the journal Environmental Pollution in 1970, and was the author of many books. Mellanby was instrumental in founding Nigeria's first University, the University of Ibadan and was its first principal (1947–1953).^[2] Mellanby Hall, the university's first student hall of residence, is named after him.^[3]

Bibliography

• Scabies. Oxford University Press, 1944 (2nd ed.: Hampton, Classey, 1972. ISBN 0900848618)
• University College, Ibadan. The site and its acquisition. Ibadan, 1954
• The birth of Nigeria's university. London, Methuen, 1958
• Pesticides and Pollution. London, Collins, 1967. (2nd rev. ed., 1972. ISBN 0002131773)
• The Mole. London, Collins, 1971. ISBN 0002131455
• The Biology of Pollution. London, Edward Arnold, 1972. ISBN 071312380X (2nd ed. 1980: ISBN 0713127767)
• Human Guinea Pigs. London, Merlin Press, 1973. ISBN 0850361753
• Can Britain feed itself? London, Merlin Press, 1975. ISBN 085036194X
• Talpa, the story of a mole. [Children's book]. London, Collins, 1976. ISBN 0001955047
• Farming and wildlife. London, Collins, 1981. ISBN 000219239X
• Air pollution, acid rain and the environment (ed. by Mellanby). London, Watt Committee on Energy. ISBN 1851662227
• The DDT story. Farnham, British Crop protection Council, 1992. ISBN 0948404531
• Waste and Pollution. London, Harper Collins, 1992. ISBN 0002191822

Notes

1. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenneth-mellanby-1406138.html
2. ^ "Overview of Prof. Kenneth Mellanby". http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst2985.html. Retrieved 2007-01-26. 
3. ^ Tamuno 1981

References

• Tekena Tamuno (1981). Ibadan Voices: Ibadan University in Transition. Ibadan University Press. ISBN 978-9781211096. 
• Kenneth Mellanby (1958). The birth of Nigeria's university. Methuen.