Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

Born in 1858, Frank Evers Beddard was an English zoologist whose research focused above all on annelid worms. He also wrote on a much wider range of subjects, including mammals, animal coloration, and zoogeography, showing a talent for moving between specialist study and more general natural history.

Beddard built a reputation as a careful scientific writer, but he was not limited to narrow academic work. He contributed articles on earthworms, leeches, and nematode worms to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and he wrote books that opened current zoological ideas to non-specialist readers.

He died in 1925. Today he is remembered both for his zoological research and for the clear, accessible way he wrote about the living world.