The Bivalvia: Proceedings of a Memorial Symposium in Honour of Sir Charles Maurice Yonge

APPENDIX A chronological list of publications on the Bivalvia by CM. Yonge

APPENDIX The Bivalvia — Proceedingsof aMemorial Symposium in Honour of Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, Edinburgh, 1986. (Edited by Brian Morton). Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1990. A CHRONOLOGICA L LIS T O F PUBLICATION S ON TH E BIVALVI A B Y CM. YONG E Brian Morton Department of Zoology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Maurice Yonge's publication record spanned 62 years beginning and ending with papers on the Bivalvia. It also began and ended at Edinburgh, Scotland, for it was here from 1922-192 5 that he began his studies as a comparative physiologist with the award of the Baxter Natural History Scholarship and subsequently a Carnegie Research Scholarship. From 1970 to the end of his life, Maurice was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. From comparative taxonomy, Maurice turned his interests to foulers and borers then, following his leadership of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1928-1929) to corals, coral reefs and mutualistic associations, particularly between tridacnids and zooxanthellae. He wrote about shores, the seas and mariculture. In fact almost every aspect of marine science fascinated hi m and it is no wonder that he became Great Britain's most eminent marin e biologist. A full list of Maurice's publications has been compiled by D. Heppell, 1986, Asian Marine Biology. 3 : 9-31. For more than any other achievement, however, Maurice will be remembered because of his contribution to our understanding of the Bivalvia. He wrote about several molluscan groups, but the Bivalvia always held a special fascination for him. I think it was because of the remarkable way that the group has evolved from a very simple body plan adapted to a sessile, infaunal, deposit or suspension feeding mode of life, to exploit an amazing variety of aquatic habitats with marvellous contrivance s to the shell, mantle, ctenidia and other structures. The Bivalvi a provid e a n almost perfect exampl e o f adaptiv e radiation . A s a consequence they are one of the best understood classes, and much of this is due to Maurice. The following list of 98 publications contains those of his, and his co-workers, on the Bivalvia alone. It has been compiled from his own publication list with additions, of a less academic nature , from suc h publications a s the New Statesman an d Discovery, bu t no t newspaper articles. References to the Bivalvia may also be found in his other publications on marine borers and mutualistic associations. The development of his ideas on the Bivalvia can be traced in the publication list. But the list also shows where, as in 1927, he felt the need to give his ideas to a wider audience. Maurice was a prolific writer and his publications on the Bivalvia alone reflect changin g perspectives i n researc h acros s thre e generation s o f lesse r men . Today , man y o f hi s publications are still landmark, consulted regularly and referred to frequently. Through his pioneering studies, he set the scene for our modern understanding of the Bivalvia. 348 BRIAN MORTO N 1923 1. Yonge , CM. Studies on the comparative physiology of digestion. I. — The mechanism of feeding, digestion , an d assimilation i n the lamellibranch Mya. British Journal of Experimental Biology. 1 : 15-63. 1924 2. Yonge , CM . Experimenta l wor k a t th e Plymouth Marin e Laboratory , July-Augus t 1922. In : 4th Report of the Committee on the Deterioration of Structures of Timber, Metal and Concrete Exposed to the Action of Sea Water. Institute of Civil Engineers, London, pp. 9-22. 1925 3. Yonge , CM. The hydrogen ion concentration in the gut of certain lamellibranchs and gastropods. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 13: 938-952. 4. Yonge , CM. Development of the shell-fish industry. New Statesman. 26: 170-172. 5. Yonge , CM. Teredo, the shipworm. Discovery. 6: 408^10. 1926 6. Yonge , CM. The disappearance of the crystalline style. Nature. Ill: 691-692 . 7. Yonge , CM. Oyster cultivation in France: results of applied biology. Modern Science. 7: 282-284. 8. Yonge , CM. The digestive diverticula in the lamellibranchs. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 54: 703-718. 9. Yonge , CM. Structure and physiology of the organs of feeding and digestion in Ostrea edulis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 14 : 295-386. 10. Yonge , CM. Destruction...