Abstract
Rodney Phillips Dales was born in Hornchurch, Essex on 15 January 1927. His father Sidney Phillips Dales was a Chartered Architect, his mother Muriel Emily (née Tattersall) kept the family home in the Squirrel’s Heath district, and frequently worked in her husband’s practice. Rodney and his brother Gordon (b. 1922) were raised in a strict Methodist family. They led a modest life, but one full of interest and diversion. Frequent trips to the seaside, and visits to buildings and artist friends of his father, helped shape Rodney’s interests and future career. He became fascinated by the diversity of the natural world and the wonderful architecture he encountered on his frequent bike rides into the Essex countryside.
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Dales, R.P. (1976) Book Review: Understanding invertebrates – A Functional Anatomy of Invertebrates. By V. Fretter and A. Graham. Pp. vi+589. (Academic: London and New York, March 1976.) £12.50; $31. Nature, London, 263(5572), 83.
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Dales, R.P. (1978) Second-set graft rejections: Do they occur in invertebrates? In: Curtis, A.S.G. (Ed.) Cell-Cell Recognition. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, 32, Cambridge University Press, London & New York, pp. 203–219.
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Dales, R.P. (1979) Defence of invertebrates against bacterial infection. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 72 (9), 688–696.
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Dales, R.P. (1979) Book Review: Biology of the intertidal zone – Biology of Intertidal Animals. By R.C. Newell. Third edition. Pp. 781. (Marine Ecological Surveys: Faversham, UK, 1979.) £22. Nature, London, 279 (5715), 744.
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Knight-Jones, P., Knight-Jones, E.W. & Dales, R.P. (1979) Spirorbidae (Polychaeta Sedentaria) from Alaska to Panama. Journal of Zoology, 189 (4), 419–458.
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Dales, R.P. & Dixon, L.J.R. (1980) Responses of polychaete annelids to bacterial infection. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 67A (3), 391–396.
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Dales, R.P. & Warren, L.M. (1980) Survival of hypoxic conditions by the polychaete Cirriformia tentaculata. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 60 (2), 509–516.
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Warren, L.M. & Dales, R.P. (1980) Glucose degradation in the polychaete annelid Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje under anaerobic conditions. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 65B (2), 443–445.
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Dales, R.P. (1981) Book Review: Marine Invertebrates of California. Robert H. Morris, Donald P. Abbott and Eugene C. Haderlie, with 31 text contributors. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1980. 928 pp., 900 figures, $30. ISBN 0-8047-1045-7. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 47 (3), 344.
Dales, R. P. (1982) Hemagglutinins and hemolysins in the body fluids of Neoamphitrite figulus and Arenicola marina (Annelida: Polychaeta). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 73A (4), 663–667.
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Dales, R.P. (1982) Book Review: Invertebrate Respiration. Studies in Biology No 127: by R M G Wells. pp 80. Edward Arnold, London. 1981. £2.25. Biochemical Education, 10 (1), 40.
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Dales, R. (1982) The older houses of Warnham: an introduction to the timber-framed buildings which may be seen throughout the parish. Warnham Historical Society, Horsham, 36 pp. Available from: https://www.warnhamsociety.org.uk/History/TheOlderHousesOfWarnham.pdf (Accessed 1 June 2020)
Dales, R.P. (1983) Observations on granulomata in the polychaetous annelid Nereis diversicolor. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 42(2), 288–291.
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Dales, R.P. (1984) Blood and coelomic fluid in relation to internal defense in polychaete annelids. In: Cheng, T.C. (Ed.), Comparative Pathobiology, Vol. 6. Invertebrate Blood: Cells and Serum Factors, Springer US, pp. 41–48.
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Braunbeck, T. & Dales, R.P. (1984) The role of the heart-body and of the extravasal tissue in disposal of foreign cells in two polychaete annelids. Tissue and Cell, 16 (4), 557–563.
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Çotuk, A. & Dales, R.P. (1984) The effect of the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Eisenia foetida Sav. on certain bacteria and the role of the coelomocytes in internal defence. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 78A (2), 271–275.
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Çotuk, A. & Dales, R.P. (1984) Lysozyme activity in the coelomic fluid and coelomocytes of the earthworm Eisenia foetida Sav. in relation to bacterial infection. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 78A (3), 469–474.
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Braunbeck, T. & Dales, R.P. (1985) The ultrastructure of the heart-body and extravasal tissue in the polychaete annelids Neoamphitrite figulus and Arenicola marina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 65 (3), 653–662.
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Dales, R.P. & Cummings, M.O. (1987) The ultrastructure of the heart-body of the lugworm, Arenicola marina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 67 (3), 647–652.
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Dales, R.P. & Cummings, M.O. (1987) Role of the nephridia in the elimination of foreign cells from the coelomic fluid of two polychaete annelids, with observations on the structure of the nephridia. Tissue and Cell, 19 (3), 387–397.
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Dales, R. & Gilchrist, B. (1987) History of the Zoology Department, Bedford College, 1849–1985. RP Dales, 42 pp.
Pleijel, F. & Dales, R.P. (1991) Polychaetes: British Phyllodocoideans, Typhloscolecoideans and Tomopteroideans. Synopses of the British Fauna, New Series, 45. Universal Book Services/Dr. W. Backhuys, Oegstgeest, 202 pp.
Dales, R.P. (1992) Phagocyte interactions in echinoid and asteroid echinoderms. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 72 (2), 473–482.
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Dale, R.P. & Kalaç, Y. (1992) Phagocytic defence by the earthworm Eisenia foetida against certain pathogenic bacteria. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 101A (3), 487–490.
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Dales, R.P. (1993) Behavior of Eisenia foetida coelomocytes in Vitro. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 61 (3), 331–332.
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Dales, R.P. (2003) Pretty in Pink. New Scientist, 180(2416), 65.
Dales, R.P. (2007) Geranium pylsovianum, G. orientalitibeticum. Geraniaceae Group News, 102, 14.
Dales, R.P. & Clifton, R. (2007) Geranium pylzovianum, G. orientalitibeticum. Geraniaceae Group News, 107, autumn.
Dales, R.P. (2012) Feedback: ‘Handwritten letter to the Editor, Dr Pulsford, 31.10.11’. JMBA Global Marine Environment, 15, 55.
Dales, R.P. (2015) Feeding Mechanisms (Invertebrate). In: AccessScience. McGraw-Hill Education. Available from https://www.accessscience.com/content/feeding-mechanisms-invertebrate/252300 (Accessed 1 June 2020)
Dales, R.P. (2018) The Buildings of Warnham: A history of a parish in the Weald of West Sussex. Foundry Press, Horsham, West Sussex. 184 pp. Available from https://warnhamsociety.org.uk/History/BuildingsofWarnham-Web.pdf (Accessed 1 June 2020).