Frederick Daniel Dyster

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Frederick Daniel Dyster (* 1810 - March 4, 1893 in Tenby ) was a British doctor and naturalist who was interested in marine zoology.

Live and act

Frederick Daniel Dyster married Francis "Fanny" Guillemard (1809–1877) in St Lawrence on the Isle of Wight in 1833 . He lived in Madeira from 1843 to 1847 for health reasons , where Dyster had a 24-bed hospital built, which he managed free of charge. In 1847 he settled at 2, Rock Houses, St Julian Street in Tenby , Welsh . In the following year, Dyster took the doctor of medicine exams in Giessen . He practiced as a doctor in Tenby and collected marine life. 1858 described Dyster a new species of bryozoans , which he dedicated to his friend Thomas Henry Huxley 's nameHuxleya gave.

Dyster was a member of the Tenby Town Council from 1866 to 1872, and was its mayor in 1867/1868. In 1878 he was one of the founders of the Tenby Museum . Dyster was a member of the Royal College of Physicians and was a member of the Linnean Society of London .

Honors

Thomas Henry Huxley named the genus Dysteria of the Infusoria after him .

Fonts (selection)

  • Notes on two New British Polyzoa . In: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sciences . Volume 6, Number 1, 1858, pp. 260-261 ( online ).
  • Notes on Phoronis hippocrepia . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 22, Number 3, 1858, pp. 251-256 ( doi: 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.1856.tb00097.x ).
  • The Climate of Madeira . In: British Medical Journal . Volume 1, Number 800, April 29, 1876, p. 536. ( PMC 2296220 (free full text)).

proof

literature

  • Margaret Davies: Victorian naturalists in Tenby . In: The Pembrokeshire historian . Number 7, 1981, pp. 17-18 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Edmund Lart: Huguenot Pedigrees . Volume 1, London 1924-1925, pp. 48-49.
  2. Thomas Henry Huxley: On Dysteria; a new genus of Infusoria . In: Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science . Volume 5, Number 1, 1857, pp. 78-82 ( online ).

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