Frank Evers Beddard

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Frank Evers Beddard (19 June 1858- 14 July 1925) was a British zoologist. He won the Linnean Medal in 1916 for his book on oligochaetes.

Beddard was born in Dudley, educated at Harrow and studied at New College, Oxford. He was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition Commission from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed Prosector of the Zoological Society of London, following the death of William Alexander Forbes. He was later appointed 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.

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  • 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)

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