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David Eduard van Dijk
Born(1925-09-14)14 September 1925
District Heidelberg, South Africa
Other namesEddie
Education
Known for
SpouseHester Edmundia (née Heese)
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetology, Paleontology
Institutions

David Eduard van Dijk (Eddie) (born 14 September 1925, District Heidelberg, Transvaal is a Herpetologist and Paleontologist and author of a number of Biology textbooks.

Species named for him include the frog, Amietia vandijki (Van Dijk's river frog) (Visser & Channing)[1], first known only as tadpoles; the fossil plant bug, Australoprosoboloides vandijki (Riek); the plant fossil, "Estcourtia vandijki" (Anderson & Anderson) and the genus Vandijkophrynus (Van Dijk's toads)[2].

Eddie has published in a number of fields including Zoology, Geology, Ichnology and Paleontology over a more than 65 year academic career, with the first, his M.Sc thesis in 1955 and most recently, publication of an article on Ichnology in 2021.

He has compiled bibliographies on African Anura (Frogs and Toads), African Tadpoles, African Fossil Frogs, and African Vertebrate Ichnology (Tracks and other Trace Fossils).

Education and career

He attended school in Johannesburg and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and Johannesburg Teachers' Training College on a Transvaal Education Department Loan Bursary. He then went to Stellenbosch University where he obtained an MSc in 1953 and DSc in 1959. Somewhat more than a decade after his retirement, he undertook a second MSc (Palaeontology) at Stellenbosch University. This was awarded in 2000.

While repaying his Loan Bursary, he was a technician in the Bacteriology Laboratory of the South African Institute for Medical Research. Thereafter he lectured in the Zoology Department, University of Natal for approximately 30 years.[3]

Awards and Honours

  • British Association Medal (Silver) (1955) [4]
  • Junior Captain Scott Medal for Biology (1956) [5]
  • Senior Captain Scott Medal for Biology (2010)

Selected publications

  • van Dijk, D.E. (1955). The "Tail" of Ascaphus. (M.Sc Thesis)
  • Lacey, W.S.; van Dijk, D.E.; Gordon-Gray, K.D. (1974). "New Permian Glossopteris flora from Natal". South African Journal of Science. 70: 131–141.
  • van Dijk, D.E., Eriksson, Patrick G. (2021). Bipedal leaping Jurassic vertebrates in Southern Africa: proposed new ichnotaxon and inferred palaeoenvironment. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 10.1080/0035919X.2021.1964104.

Books

  • Smit, A.L.; van Dijk, D.E. (1970). Introduction to Modern Biology. Maskew Miller. ISBN 978-0636003811.
  • van Dijk, D.E.; Channing, A (1976). A Guide to the Frogs of South West Africa. Univ.Durban-Westville Press.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Nel, D.; Vorster, P.W. (1986). Senior Sekondêre Biologie 8. Maskew Miller Longman.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Nel, D.; Vorster, P.W. (1986). Senior Secondary Biology 8. Maskew Miller Longman.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Nel, D.; Van Antwerpen, A.J. (1987). Senior Secondêre Biologie 10. Maskew Miller Longman.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Nel, D.; Van Antwerpen, A.J. (1987). Senior Secondary Biology 10. Maskew Miller Longman.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Gebhardt, A.; Van Antwerpen, A.J. (1988). Senior Sekondêre Biologie 9. Maskew Miller Longman.
  • Smit, A.L.; Fox, H.E.; van Dijk, D.E.; Hennessy, E.F.; Gebhardt, A.; Van Antwerpen, A.J. (1988). Senior Secondary Biology 9. Maskew Miller Longman.

Notes

  1. ^ Visser, J. and A. Channing. (1997).
  2. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Vandijkophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1.
  4. ^ "List of award winners: British Association Medal (Silver)". s2a3.org.za. Retrieved 2021-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ South African Journal of Science, December 1956 (Pg 166).

References

  • Visser, J. and A. Channing. (1997). A new species of river frog from the Swartberg, South Africa (Ranidae: Afrana). Journal of African Zoology 111: 191–198.
  • South African Journal of Science (December 1956). "Annual General Meeting of the South African Biological Society", South African Journal of Science, December 1956 (Pg 166).
  • Southern African Association for the Advancement of Science. "List of award winners: British Association Medal (Silver)", http://s2a3.org.za/joomla/index.php/awards/british-association-medal-silver


Category:1925 births Category:South African scientists Category:University of Natal faculty Category:South African herpetologists Category:20th-century South African scientists Category:20th-century scientists Category:South African scientists

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