"English Zoologist" Frank Evers Beddard Hand Written 3 Pg Letter Dated 1887 COA

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"English Zoologist" Frank Evers Beddard Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1887.
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Frank Evers Beddard
FRS
FRSE
(19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English zoologist. He became a leading authority on
annelids
, including
earthworms
. He won the
Linnean Medal
in 1916 for his book on
oligochaetes
. Beddard was born in
Dudley, Worcestershire
the son of John Beddard. He was educated at
Harrow
and
New College, Oxford
. He died in
Hampstead
in London.
Beddard was naturalist to the
Challenger Expedition
Commission from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed
prosector
, responsible for preparing dissections of animals that had died, at the
Zoological Society of London
, following the death of
William Alexander Forbes
.
Beddard became lecturer in
biology
at
Guy's Hospital
, examiner in zoology and
comparative anatomy
at the
University of London
, and lecturer in
morphology
at
Oxford University
. Apart from his publications on wide-ranging topics in zoology, such as
Isopoda
,
Mammalia
,
ornithology
,
[
zoogeography
and
animal coloration
, Beddard became particularly noted as an authority on the
annelids
, publishing two books on the group and contributing articles on
earthworms
,
leeches
and also on another phylum of worms, the
Nematoda
for the 1911
Encyclopædia Britannica
, where he used the initials "F.E.B.". Coles cites
W.H. Hudson
's 1919
The book of a naturalist
, page 347: Beddard contributed biographies of zoologists
William Henry Flower
and
John Anderson
for the
Dictionary of National Biography
. He was the author of volume 10 (Mammalia) of the
Cambridge Natural History
.
Beddard's olingo
(
Pocock
, 1921) is named after him.