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 letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This s ...

(19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English zoologist. He became a leading authority on

annelids The annelids (Annelida , from Latin ', "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to various ecolo ...

, including

earthworm An earthworm is a terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida. They exhibit a tube-within-a-tube body plan; they are externally segmented with corresponding internal segmentation; and they usually have setae on all segments. Th ...

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 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 megadrile earthworm ...

Life

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

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at t ...

. He died at

West Hampstead West Hampstead is an area in the London Borough of Camden in north-west London. Mainly defined by the railway stations of the same name, it is situated between Childs Hill to the north, Frognal and Hampstead to the north-east, Swiss Cottage ...

in London.

Career

Beddard was naturalist to the

Challenger Expedition The ''Challenger'' expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific program 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 devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained the London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Park. History On 29 ...

, following the death of William Alexander Forbes. Beddard became lecturer in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital 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 King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. ...

, 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 ...

at the

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, and lecturer in morphology at

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

Isopoda Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

Mammalia Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), f ...

,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 is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and t ...

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, mor ...

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 ...

,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 (Annelida , from Latin ', "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to various ec ...

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 parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida. They are closely related to the oligochaetes, which include the earthworm, and like them have soft, muscular segmented bod ...

es and also on another phylum of worms, the

Nematoda The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broa ...

for the 1911 ''

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'', 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 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 im ...

and John Anderson 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

Animal coloration (Plate III) (7042622427)

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

Biography
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Biodiversity Heritage Library: 20 Titles by Beddard

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beddard, Frank Evers 1858 births 1925 deaths English zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Linnean Medallists People educated at Harrow School Alumni of New College, Oxford People from Dudley