Charles Spence Bate

Charles Spence Bate ( born March 16, 1819 Truro, Cornwall, † July 29, 1889 in The Rock, South Brent, Devon Shire ) was a British zoologist and dentist. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading expert in the field of crustaceans.

Life

He used the surname Spence Bate, in order to distinguish himself from his father, but is cited as Bate.

He practiced first in Swansea as a dentist and then took over his father's practice in 1851 in Plymouth. He also worked as a zoologist specialist for crustaceans ( Crustacea) and authored the appropriate section in the reports of the Challenger Expedition of the 1870s. He collaborated with John Obadiah Westwood.

He was a frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin, who, like Spence Bate was interested in copepods.

Named after him are Pseudoparatanais Batei (GO Sars 1882), Amphilochus spencebatei ( Stebbing 1876), Scyllarus bagei ( Holthuis 1946), Costa Batei ( Brady 1866) and Periclimenes Batei ( Holthuis 1959).

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 at the Museum. In 1885 he was president of the Odontological Society and one of the founders and in 1863 President of the Devonshire Association.

He also published a lot about dentistry.

He is buried in Plymouth.

Writings

  • John Obadiah Westwood A history of the British sessile -eyed Crustacea, 2 volumes, 1868
  • Catalogue of the Specimens of the Amphipodous Crustacea, British Museum of Natural History 1862
  • Report on the Crustacea dredged by macrura H.M.S. Challenger falling on the years 1873 and 1876, in the report of the Challenger expedition (Editor Charles Wyville Thomson, John Murray ), Volume 24, 1888
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