\"English Zoologist\" Frank Evers Beddard Hand Written 3 Pg Letter Dated 1887 For Sale

Up for sale "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 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.