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THE death of Phyllis Kelway on April 14 at the comparatively early age of thirty-nine comes as a shock to those who knew her as one of the small band of naturalists interested in British mammals, in particular the smaller species, such as the mice, voles and shrews. It was her probably unique distinction to have bred that smallest of living mammals, the lesser or pigmy shrew, Sorex minutus, in confinement; also that tiny mammal, the harvest mouse, Micromys minutus. She kept and studied most of the British mammals, having marked success with that delightful but difficult species, the red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris leucourus, her pets "Jennifer" and "John" mating and bringing up a litter of young ones. It is noteworthy that Miss Kelway failed to get the red squirrel and the grey squirrel to take any interest in one another, her experiments supporting the view that they never fraternize, still less hybridize.
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PITT, F. Miss Phyllis Kelway. Nature 155, 600 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155600b0
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