. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Robert W. Henderson & Robert Powell: Thomas Barbour and the Utowana Voyages (1929-1934) 299. Fig. 2: Allison Armour (left) and Thomas Barbour on the deck of the Utowana (photograph used with the permission of Louisa B. Parker). prevented him from ever inarrying again". Once, as Fairchild and Armour drove through Nice, Armour pointed to a fashionable hotel on a cliff and remarked, "There is where the light of my life went out". Barbour (1945) descr
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Robert W. Henderson & Robert Powell: Thomas Barbour and the Utowana Voyages (1929-1934) 299. Fig. 2: Allison Armour (left) and Thomas Barbour on the deck of the Utowana (photograph used with the permission of Louisa B. Parker). prevented him from ever inarrying again". Once, as Fairchild and Armour drove through Nice, Armour pointed to a fashionable hotel on a cliff and remarked, "There is where the light of my life went out". Barbour (1945) described Armour as "formal, almost stiff, . . and he moved and met people with a stately, rather old-fashioned dignity ... He was never a man who told a smutty story or indulged in any evidence of vulgarity. He was nevertheless one of the wittiest men that I ever knew, a bom raconteur, with a background of travel all over the world and a marvelously retentive memory . . With all his apparent stiffness and formal- ity, Allison had so warm a heart and such a deeply gen- erous nature that he made friends everywhere. His ap- parent stiffness was really a defense reaction for Allison was essentially a shy man". Barbour's daughter Louisa, a member of the 1934 Utowana voyage, de- scribed Armour as "terribly generous, anything you'd want, he'd get" (pers. comm. to RWH; 10 Aug 1999). Thomas Barbour considered him "a distinguished epi- cure, seriously interested in serving good food and good wine . .", and Louisa Barbour (pers. comm. to RWH; 10 Aug 1999) observed that her father and ARMOUR "would eat anything". Despite an apparently fastidious nature, Barbour concluded that Armour, "took a sin- cere interest in the somewhat messy pastimes which were an inevitable concomitant of the imtnediate pres- ence of naturalists, and he was as keen to provide ade- quate facilities for the botanists as well as for the zoolo- gists . .". Armour was an ho
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