Francis Arthur Bather

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Francis Arthur Bather (born February 17, 1863 in Richmond upon Thames , † March 20, 1934 ) was a British paleontologist.

Life

Bather went to Winchester College and graduated from Oxford University (New College) with top marks in science in 1886. From 1887 he was in the geology department of the British Museum (Natural History), where he took care of fossil echinoderms . In 1896 he married in Stockholm . When Henry Woodward retired , he became Deputy Keeper at the Natural History Museum in 1902 and succeeded Arthur Smith Woodward Keeper in 1924 .

In 1909 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1911 he received the Lyell Medal . From 1926 to 1928 he was President of the Geological Society of London . In 1892 he received the Rolleston Prize in Biology from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, in 1932 the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and in 1897 the Wollaston Fund. In 1912 he became a member of the Paleontological Society and from 1928 a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The Crinoidea of ​​Gotland, 1893
  • British Fossil Crinoidea 1890-1892
  • The Echinoderma, 1900
  • Triassic Echinoderms of Bakony, 1909
  • Cystidea from Girvan, 1913
  • Studies in Edrioasteroidea, 1915
  • Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of Geology and Palaeontology, Natural History Museum 1923, 1936
  • Publisher: Rhodesian Man and Associated Remains, 1928
  • Echinodermata, Encyclopedia Britannica 1911

literature

  • William Dickson Lang, Obituary Notices Fellows Royal Society, 1, 1934, 302

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Francis Arthur Bather at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bather, Francis Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond upon Thames
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1934