Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975 (Nombre personal)

His Alfred Russel Wallace ... 1918.

Alton, J. Report on papers of Lancelot Thomas Hogben ... 1981: t.p. (Lancelot Thomas Hogben; 1895-1975; zoologist)

Gould, Gerald, 1885-1936. Autograph letter signed (Mr. Lancelot Hogben)

Wikipedia, viewed June 1, 2015 (Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS, 9 December 1895-22 August 1975, was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician; developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research and popularised books on science, mathematics and language in his later career; born in Portsmouth and brought up in Southsea, Hampshire; medical student studied physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge; 1923, a founder of the Society for Experimental Biology and its organ the British Journal of Experimental Biology (renamed Journal of Experimental Biology in 1930), along with Julian Huxley and geneticist Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973); 1927, zoology chair at the University of Cape Town, while using Xenopus frog to investigate the endocrine system, he serendipitously discovered that female Xenopus frogs, when injected with urine from a pregnant woman, ovulated within hours ... the Hogben Pregnancy Test was created and remained the major, international pregnancy test for decades; 1930, London School of Economics, chair for social biology; Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936; two best-selling works of popular science, Mathematics for the Million (1936) and Science for the Citizen (1938); Mason Professor of Zoology at the University of Birmingham 1941-1947 and professor of medical statistics there 1947-1961; died at the War Memorial Hospital, Wrexham in 1975 aged 79)