Discuter:Thomas Bell

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Thomas Bell (1792-1880) was born in Poole, Dorset. Although he originally trained as a dental surgeon, his lifelong interest in natural history led him to become an eminent zoologist. He was appointed as Professor of Zoology at King’s College, London, in 1836. Bell was a great compiler of scientific knowledge, rather than a field biologist, and his main groups of interest were amphibians, reptiles and crustaceans.

Bell published a large number of books and scientific papers, including a description of the reptiles and amphibians collected during Charles Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle. His ‘Monograph of the Testudinata’ was an ambitious attempt to summarise the world’s turtles, living and extinct; originally intended as a folio in 8 parts, this work was never completed owing to a failure on the part of the publishers.

Westwood, the first Hope Professor of Zoology, purchased a large part of Bell’s collection of crustaceans and reptiles for Oxford University. These specimens include many of Bell’s types, and a number of specimens believed to be Darwin material.

The transfer of Bell’s material to the zoological collections began in 1889, the spirit collections were fully incorporated by 1962 and the dried crustaceans by 1975. Other specimens from the Bell Collection can be found in the Natural History Museum, London, and the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

On ne parle pas assez de sa mort??????

Bonjour contributeur anonyme et merci pour votre message.
J'imagine que vous regrettiez qu'il ne soit pas fait mention du devenir de ses collections ? Si oui, c'est fait ! Si c'est autre chose, n'hésitez pas à poser une autre question.
Bonne journée.--Valérie 22 avr 2005 à 17:47 (CEST)