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Sir Alister Clavering Hardy, FRS (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was an English marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales. Hardy served as zoologist on the RRS ''Discovery'''s voyage to explore the Antarctic between 1925 and 1927. On the voyage he invented the Continuous Plankton Recorder; it enabled any ship to collect plankton samples during an ordinary voyage. After retiring from his academic work, Hardy founded the Religious Experience Research Centre in 1969. ==''Camoufleur'' and artist== Hardy was born in Nottingham, the son of an architect. He was educated not far away at Oundle School. He had intended to go to Oxford University in 1914, but on the outbreak of war he instead volunteered for the army, and was made a ''camoufleur'', a camouflage officer. Hardy wrote that he had been He was selected for camouflage work by the artist Solomon J. Solomon, who apparently mistook him for a different Hardy who was a professional artist.〔Forbes, Peter. ''Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage''. Yale, 2009. Page 101.〕 Hardy however did have sufficient artistic skill to serve his military and scientific work. He illustrated his New Naturalist books with his own line drawings, maps, diagrams, photographs, and paintings.〔Hardy, The Open Sea, 1956 and 1959.〕 For example, plate 2 of ''Fish and Fisheries'' illustrates the depicted "''Rare and Unusual Fish in British Waters''" both accurately and vividly. Hardy described the camoufleurs as including artists and "scientists with artistic inclinations", himself perhaps among them.〔 In later life, Hardy travelled in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, China and Japan, recording his visits to temples in all those countries in watercolour paintings. Many of these are in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David collection. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alister Hardy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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