Frank Evers Beddard FRS

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

. He became a leading authority on

annelids The annelids (), also known as the segmented worms, are animals that comprise the phylum Annelida (; ). The phylum contains over 22,000 extant species, including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to vario ...

, including

earthworm An earthworm is a soil-dwelling terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida. The term is the common name for the largest members of the class (or subclass, depending on the author) Oligochaeta. In classical systems, they we ...

s. He won the

Linnean Medal The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...

in 1916 for his book on

oligochaetes Oligochaeta () is a subclass of soft-bodied animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms. Specifically, oligochaetes comprise the terrestrial megadril ...

Life

Beddard was born in Dudley, Worcestershire the son of John Beddard. He was educated at

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and

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

. He died at

West Hampstead West Hampstead is an area in the London Borough of Camden. Neighbouring areas includes Childs Hill to the north, Frognal to the east, Swiss Cottage to the south-east, South Hampstead to the south and Kilburn to the south-west. The neighbourh ...

in London. In 1881, aged 22, he lodged at 81a Princes Street, Edinburgh at Anna Campbell's lodging house. His fellow lodger was the Scottish biologist and town planner

Patrick Geddes Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban plannin ...

Career

Beddard was naturalist to the

Challenger Expedition The ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the naval vessel that undertook the trip, . The expedition, initiated by W ...

Commission from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed

prosector A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and ...

, responsible for preparing dissections of animals that had died, at the

Zoological Society of London The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity and organization devoted to the worldwide animal conservation, conservation of animals and their habitat conservation, habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained London Zo ...

, following the death of

William Alexander Forbes William Alexander Forbes (25 June 1855 – 14 January 1883) was an English zoologist. He was the son of James Staats Forbes (1823–1904). Forbes studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge, and later taught at Rhodes College ( ...

. Beddard became lecturer in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy in 1721, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the Kin ...

, examiner in zoology and

comparative anatomy Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny (the evolution of species). The science began in the classical era, continuing in t ...

at the

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, and lecturer in

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

. Apart from his publications on wide-ranging topics in zoology, such as

Isopoda Isopoda is an order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both aquatic species and terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed l ...

Mammalia A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three middle ear bon ...

,Beddard, Frank Evers. (Edit: Harmer, Sir Sidney Frederic; Shipley, Arthur Everett, Gadow, Hans) ''The Cambridge Natural History'', Volume 10, Mammalia. Macmillan Company 1902

ornithology Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

zoogeography Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species. As a multifaceted field of study, zoogeography incorporates methods of molecular biology, genetics, mo ...

and

animal coloration Animal coloration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Some animals are brightly coloured, while others are hard to see. In some species, such as the peafowl, the male h ...

,Beddard, Frank Evers. '' Animal coloration; an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals.'' London, S. Sonnenschein & co.; New York, Macmillan, 1892 Beddard became particularly noted as an authority on the

annelid The annelids (), also known as the segmented worms, are animals that comprise the phylum Annelida (; ). The phylum contains over 22,000 extant species, including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to vario ...

s,Coles, John W.
Bibliography of the contributions to the study of the Annelida by Frank Evers Beddard with details of the material reported
'. Archives of Natural History. Volume 10, Page 273-315, DOI 10.3366/anh.1981.10.2.273, ISSN 0260-9541, 1981. publishing two books on the group and contributing articles on

leech Leeches are segmented parasitism, parasitic or Predation, predatory worms that comprise the Class (biology), subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the Oligochaeta, oligochaetes, which include the earthwor ...

es and also on another phylum of worms, the

Nematoda The nematodes ( or ; ; ), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. Species in the phylum inhabit a broad range of environments. Most species are free-living, feeding on microorganisms, but many are parasitism, parasitic. Parasitic ...

for the 1911 ''

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'', where he used the initials "F.E.B.". Coles cites

W.H. Hudson William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Born in the Argentine pampas where he roamed free in his youth, he observed bir ...

's 1919 ''The book of a naturalist'', page 347: Beddard contributed biographies of zoologists

William Henry Flower Sir William Henry Flower (30 November 18311 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an ...

and

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for the

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. He was the author of volume 10 (Mammalia) of the ''Cambridge Natural History''.

Legacy

Beddard's olingo ( Pocock, 1921) is named after him.

Works

Books

* ''Report on the Isopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873–76'' HMSO, 1884. * '' Animal Coloration: an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals'' Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. * ''A Text-book of Zoogeography''. Cambridge University Press, 1895. * ''A Monograph of the Order of Oligochaeta''. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1895. * ''A Book of Whales''. John Murray, 1895. * ''The Cambridge natural history. Vol 10 Mammalia''. Macmillan, 1895. * ''Elementary Zoology''. Longmans, Green, 1898. * ''The Structure and Classification of Birds'' Longmans, Green, 1898. * ''Mammalia'', Macmillan, 1902. * ''Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals'', Archibald Constable, 1905. * ''Earthworms and Their Allies''. Cambridge University Press, 1912.

Chapters

* Hudson, W.H. and Beddard, Frank E.
British Birds
'. Chapter on structure and classification. First edition 1898. Longmans, Green, 1921.

References

External links

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Biodiversity Heritage Library: 20 Titles by Beddard

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