Thomas Bell (zoologist)

Thomas Bell ( born October 11, 1792 in Poole, † March 13, 1880 in Selborne ) was a British physician and zoologist.

Life

Thomas Bell was a son of the physician Thomas Bell and his wife Susan gutter. He first attended school in his hometown and later in Shaftesbury before 1813 his studies at Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital began. In 1815 he joined as a member in the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1817 he was the successor of Joseph Fox ( 1776-1816 ) dentist at Guy's Hospital and began also lectures on comparative anatomy to keep. Around 1819 Bell began amalgam fillings in his practice use.

1815 Bell member of the Linnean Society in 1817 and also a member of the Geological Society. He was particularly interested in zoology. In 1824 he founded released a total of 5 volumes of the Zoological Journal of the until 1835, together with John George Children ( 1777-1852 ), James de Carle Sowerby and George Brettingham Sowerby ( 1780-1854 ). He also published his first descriptions of new species of reptiles, such as those of the North African Spiny-tailed lizards, the Three Stripes Box Turtle ( Cuora trifasciata ) and the coming of the Galapagos marine iguana ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus).

On 10 January 1828, he became a member of the Royal Society for which he worked as a secretary and two as Vice-President ( 1853-1854 and 1858-1860 ) from 1848 to 1853 initially.

With an original 8 volumes applied, illustrated with 40 plates by James de Carle Sowerby and Edward Lear monograph (A Monograph of the Testudinata ) he undertook from 1832 to 1836 to test all known living and extinct turtles together in a factory. In 1836 he became Professor of Zoology at King's College London, a position he held until his death. In the published work this year A history of British Quadrupeds Bell dealt with the British terrestrial vertebrates. It was in one year later following the second edition complemented by chapters on whales. 1839 followed with A history of British reptiles a work in which he finally his specialty, the reptiles turned to.

When Charles Darwin returned to his journey with the HMS Beagle end of 1836 to London Bell showed particularly for its reptiles interest. He was from Darwin finally asked for the planned works The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle to edit the reptiles as the fifth band. However, the final completion of this part was delayed by a prolonged illness Bells.

From 1844 to 1859 Bell was the first president of the newly founded in 1844 Ray Society. In the same year he was made an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons. With the 1844-1853 published work A History of the British Stalk -eyed Crustacea he wrote a standard work on the British crustaceans. 1848 Bell became secretary of the Linnean Society of London, he eventually presided as President from 1853 to 1861. During his presidency, the meetings of the society were again alive. Under his chairmanship were on July 1, 1858, entitled On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection together two works by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to the theory of evolution by natural selection read.

Bell was elected a member of various foreign scientific societies. So he was on 24 May 1853 as " Linnaeus II" member of the Leopoldina. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Société d' Histoire Naturelle de Paris and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

1866 Bell acquired from Gilbert White's ( 1720-1793 ) great-niece of the "The Wakes " said House shall in Selborne and retired there. In 1877 he published an enlarged edition of White's work, The Natural History of Selborne.

Frederick William Hope (1797-1862) acquired 1862 Bells collection of land and water turtles, crocodiles and lizards and donated it to the University of Oxford. In the same year bought John Westwood (1805-1893) of Bell whose collection of crustaceans and bequeathed them also of the University of Oxford. Today, this part of his collection in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History to see.

Writings

Works

  • The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth S. Highley, London 1829; online
  • A Monograph of the Testudinata. S. Highley, London 1832-1836; online
  • A history of British Quadrupeds. J. van Voorst, London 1836
  • A history of British quadrupeds including the Cetacea: Illustrated by nearly 200 Woodcuts 2nd edition, Van Voorst, London 1837; online
  • A history of British reptiles. J. Van Voorst, London 1839; online
  • The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Reptiles. Smith, Elder & Co., London 1842-1843
  • A History of the British Stalk -eyed Crustacea. London 1844-1853; online
  • Catalogue of Crustacea in the collections of the British Museum. Part I: Leucosiadae. Taylor and Francis, London 1855
  • A monograph of the fossil malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain. Part I. Crustacé of the London Clay. Palaeontographical Society, London 1857
  • Monograph of the Fossil Malacostracous Crustacea of Great Britain. Part II Crustacea of the Gault and Greensand. Palaeontographical Society, London 1862
  • The Thomas Bell Library ". The Catalogue of 15000 volumes of Scarce Printed Books & Curious and Unique Manuscripts Comprised in the Unrivalled Library Collected by the Late Thomas Bell ... Between the Year 1797 & 1860, Which Will be Sold by Auction ... Mr. Geo by Hardcastle on Monday 15 Oct ..., JG Foster, 1860. online

Journal Papers (selection)

  • Description of a new species of Emarginula. In: Zoological Journal. 1, pp. 53-53, W. Phillips, London 1824
  • Remarks on the animal nature of sponges. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 1, p 202, W. Phillips, London 1824
  • Note on the Supposed identity of the genus Isodon of Say with Capromys. In: Zoological Journal. 1, pp. 230-231, W. Phillips, London 1824
  • Description of a new species of lizard. ( Uromastix acanthinurus ) In: Zoological Journal. 1, pp. 457-460, W. Phillips, London 1825
  • On a new genus of Iguanidae. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 2, pp. 204-208, W. Phillips, London 1825 online
  • Observations on the structure of the throat in the genus Anolis. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 2, pp. 11-14, W. Phillips, London 1826; online
  • A monograph of the tortoises having a movable sternum with Remarks On Their arrangement and affinities. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 2, pp. 299-310, W. Phillips, London, 1826; online
  • Description of a new species of Terrapene WITH FURTHER observation on T. carolina and T. maculata. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 2, pp. 484-486, W. Phillips, London 1826; online
  • On Leptophina, a group of serpents Comprising the genus Dryinus of Merrem and a newly Formed genus Proposed to be named Leptophis. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 2, pp. 322-329, W. Phillips, London 1826; online
  • On the structure and use of the submaxillary odoriferous gland in the genus crocodilus. In Philosophical Transactions. Pp. 132-138, W. Nicol, London, 1827
  • On two new genera of land tortoises. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society. Volume 15, pp. 392-401, R. Taylor, London 1827; online
  • Descriptions of three new species of land tortoises. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 3, pp. 419-421, W. Phillips, London 1827
  • On Hydraspis, a new genus of freshwater tortoises, of the family Emydidae. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 3, pp. 511-513, W. Phillips, London 1827
  • Characters of the order, families, and genera of the Testudinata. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 3, pp. 513-516, W. Phillips, London 1828
  • Descriptions of a new species of Anolius, and a new species of amphisbaena collected by WS MacLeay, in the Iceland of Cuba. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 3, W. Phillips, London 1828; online
  • Description of a new species of Agama, Brought from the Columbia River by Mr. Douglass. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society Volume 16, pp. 105-107, Linnean Society, London 1829; online
  • Description of a new species of Phalangista. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 4, R. Taylor, London 1829; online
  • Description of a new genus of Reptilia of the family Scincidae. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 4, p 393, W. Phillips, London 1833
  • Description of a new genus of Reptilia of the family of Amphisbaenidae. In: Zoological Journal. Volume 5, pp. 391-393 W. Phillips, London 1835
  • Observations on the neck of the three- toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, Linn. In: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 1, p 116, London 1835
  • Observations on the neck of the three- toes sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, Linn. In: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 1, pp. 113-116, Plate 17, London 1835
  • Observations on the genus Cancer of Dr. Leach ( Platycarcinus, Latr. ) In: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 1, pp. 335-342, Tefeln 43-47, London 1835
  • Some account of the Crustacea of the coasts of South America descriptions of new genera and species: Founded Principally on the collections Obtained by Mr. Cuming and Mr. Miller. In: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume 2, pp. 39-66 London in 1835; online
  • Zoological observations on a new fossil species of Chelydra from Oeningen. In: Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Series 2, volume 4, pp. 379-381
  • On the thalassina Emerii, a crustacean fossil. In: Proceedings of the Geological Society. Volume 4, pp. 360-362. London 1844
  • On the Thalassina Emerii, a fossil Crustacean, forwarded by Mr. WS Macleay, from New Holland. In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 93-94, 1845
  • Horae carcinologicae, or notices of Crustacea. I: a monograph of the Leucosiadae. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History '. Volume 16, pp. 361-367, 1855
  • Horae carcinologicae, or notices of Crustacea. I: a monograph of the Leucosiadae. In: Transactions of the Linnean Society. Volume 21, pp. 277-314, plates 30-34, 1855; online
Royal College of Surgeons of England Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Integrated Authority File
772003
de