Biologist to North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board

Abstract

AN appointment of more than usual interest to naturalists has been announced by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, the authority for the development of water-power schemes over a considerable area of the most attractive scenery in Scotland. In 1943 the Board appointed Mr. W. L. Calderwood, formerly inspector of Scottish salmon fisheries, as its principal consulting adviser on fishery matters, and he will continue in that capacity; but a full-time fishery adviser and biologist, Dr. John Berry, has now been appointed to ensure that in the planning of new schemes due attention will be given to all aspects which affect wild life. Dr. Berry's wide interests in natural history fit him well for such a post. For some time he was director of the Fresh-water Fisheries Research Station at University College, Southampton, and before the War he carried out salmon research for the Fishery Board for Scotland and the Moray Firth Salmon Fishery Company. In 1939 he published for the International Wildfowl Inquiry an exhaustive volume on "The Status and Distribution of Wild Geese and Wild Duck in Scotland". During the War he has been officer-in-charge of Press censorship in Scotland, but naturalists will welcome his return to his proper vocation.