Charles Spence Bate
Charles Spence Bate (born March 16, 1819 in Truro , Cornwall , † July 29, 1889 in The Rock, South Brent, Devonshire ) was a British dentist and zoologist. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading expert in the field of crustaceans. He used the last name Spence Bate to differentiate himself from his father, but is also cited as Bate.
Life
Bate first practiced as a dentist in Swansea and then took over his father's practice in Plymouth in 1851 . In addition, as a zoologist, he was a specialist in crustaceans and wrote the relevant section in the reports of the Challenger expedition of the 1870s. He worked with John Obadiah Westwood .
Bate was a frequent correspondent for Charles Darwin , who, like Spence Bate, was interested in copepods .
Pseudoparatanais batei (GO Sars 1882), Amphilochus spencebatei (Stebbing 1876), Scyllarus bagei (Holthuis 1946), Costa batei (Brady 1866) and Periclimenes batei (Holthuis 1959) are named after him .
In 1861 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was secretary and 1861/62 and 1869/70 President of the Plymouth Institution and curator of its museum. In 1885 he was President of the Odontological Society and one of the founders, and in 1863 President of the Devonshire Association.
Bate also published a lot on dentistry.
He is buried in Plymouth.
Fonts
- with John Obadiah Westwood: A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea , 2 volumes, 1868
- Catalog of the Specimens of the Amphipodous Crustacea , British Museum of Natural History 1862
- Report on the Crustacea Macrura dredged by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 and 1876 , in the Report of the Challenger Expedition (editors Charles Wyville Thomson , John Murray ), Volume 24, 1888
literature
- Obituary in Geological Magazine , 6, 1889, pp. 526-528.
Web links
- Biographical Etymology of Marine Organisms - B
- Biography in the Dictionary of National Biography at wikisource
- Photo at the Royal Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Darwin Project, Bate ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bate, Charles Spence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spence Bate, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist and dentist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Truro , Cornwall |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1889 |
| Place of death | Devonshire |