Frank Evers Beddard FRS (19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was a British zoologist. He won the Linnean Medal

Linnean Medal

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 in 1916 for his book on oligochaetes.

Beddard was born in Dudley

Dudley

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, educated at Harrow

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 and studied at New College, Oxford

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. He was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition

Challenger expedition

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 Commission from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed Prosector

Prosector

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 of the Zoological Society of London

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, following the death of William Alexander Forbes

William Alexander Forbes

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. He was later appointed Lecturer in Biology

Biology

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 at Guy's Hospital

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, Examiner in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

Comparative anatomy

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 at the University of London

University of London

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, and Lecturer in Morphology

Morphology (biology)

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 at Oxford University.

Works

• Animal coloration: an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals (1892)
• Text-book of zoogeography (1895)
• A monograph of the oligochaeta (1895)
• Structure and classification of birds (1898)
• A book of whales (1900)
• Earthworms and their allies (1912)