Taxonomy isn’t sexy science, but it deserves wider appreciation | Letter

Jane Logan pays tribute to her late husband’s lifelong passion for classifying organisms My late husband, Niall Logan, professor of bacterial systematics at Glasgow Caledonian University, would have been astonished that his lifelong field of academic study, taxonomy, in his case the genus Bacillus, would merit an entire article in the Guardian (‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?, 2 March). It is certainly not sexy s...

By Guardian Staff