| Authorised form of name | Regan; Charles Tate (1878 - 1943); zoologist and museum director |
| Dates | 1878 - 1943 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 01 February 1878 |
| Place of death | His home, 8 Carlton Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex |
| Date of death | 12 January 1943 |
| Occupation | Zoologist and museum director |
| Research field | Ichthyology |
| Zoology |
| Activity | Education:
Derby School; MA (Camb)
Career:
Assistant in the British Museum (Natural History), assisting George Albert Boulenger in curating the collection of fishes (1901); keeper of the department of zoology, Natural History Museum (1921); director of the museum (1927-138).
Memberships:
British Association
Awards/Medals:
Hhonorary fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge 1928 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1917 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Proposer | Henry Woodward |
| John Graham Kerr |
| W A Herdman |
| Charles William Andrews |
| Arthur Smith Woodward |
| Frederick Du Cane Godman |
| Ernest William MacBride |
| Arthur Everett Shipley |
| James Peter Hill |
| Peter Chalmers Mitchell |
| Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Sidney Frederic Harmer |
| Relationships | Parents: Charles James Regan, music master at Sherborne School, and Maria Jane, daughter of William Tate, author.
Spouse: (m. 12 July 1905) Elsie Alice (b. 1882), daughter of George Marlow, land surveyor.
Children: Two daughters and two sons. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 30047 |
| OtherInfo | Distinguished for his contribution to Ichthyology, on which he has published many important works, referring to morphology, classific and geographical distribution.
Described the complex copulatory organs of the tiny East Indian Phallostethid fishes.
Remembered for his comprehensive fish classification schemes, having defined and surveyed forty orders of fishes.
He was the first, in 1925, to recognise the parasitic dwarf males in certain deep-sea angler-fishes. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 411-426, plate, by R H Burne and J R Norman |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/3986712 |
| Code | NA1235 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/59/250 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Tate] Regan Esquire, FRS | 30 July 1920 |
| RR/41/84 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The origin and development of the pericardium and kidneys in Ostrea' by Wilfred Fernando | October 1930 |
| NLB/54/442 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esquire, FRS | 17 May 1917 |
| RR/27/49 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The defensive spines of fishes, living and fossil, and the glandular structure in connection therewith, with observations on the nature of fish venoms' by H Muir Evans | May 1922 |
| MC/32/42 | Letter from [Charles] Tate Regan, Secretary, The Challenger Society for the promotion of the study of Oceanography, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W, to the [Royal Society] | 1 January 1917 |
| NLB/58/260 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esquire, Secretary of the Challnger Committee and FRS | 13 April 1920 |
| RR/29/16 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'On the classification and phylogeny of the teleostei arterioles' by H K Kyle | January 1923 |
| NLB/55/221 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Tate] Regan, FRS | 22 January 1918 |
| NLB/55/264 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Bretland] Farmer, FRS | 07 February 1918 |
| NLB/60/312 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Tate] Regan Esquire, FRS; The Challenger Society, Natural History Museum | 17 January 1921 |
| NLB/60/484 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Tate] Regan Esquire, FRS | 14 February 1921 |
| RR/47/6 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The Genus Hyracotherium. A revision and description of new specimens found in England' by Clive Forster-Cooper | April 1932 |
| RR/49/89 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The habits and structure of pseudapocryptes lanceolatus, a fish in the first stages of structural adaptation to aerial respiration' by B K Das | [April 1934] |
| RR/28/72 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'Some peculiarities of the blood-vascular system of the porbeagle shark (Lamna cornubica)' by Richard Higgins Burne | [June 1923] |
| RR/53/58 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The brain of Gadus, with special reference to the medulla oblongata and its variations according to the feeding habits of different gadidae—I' by H Muir Evans | [November 1934] |
| RR/59/65 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'A comparative study of the brains in pleuronectidae' by H Muir Evans | [August 1936] |
| NLB/65/683 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, FRS | 7 December 1923 |
| NLB/62/817 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles Tate] Regan Esquire, FRS | 12 May 1922 |
| NLB/65/567 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS | 21 November 1923 |
| RR/47/41 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'Further observations on the medulla oblongata of cyprinoids ; and a comparative study of the medulla of clupeoids and cyprinoids with special reference to the acoustic tubercles' by H Muir Evans | May 1932 |
| NLB/65/95 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick William] Gamble, FRS; circulated to all members of the Zoology Committee | 26 July 1923 |
| NLB/65/641 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esq., FRS | 1 December 1923 |
| NLB/65/72 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, FRS | 24 July 1923 |
| NLB/67/332 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esq., FRS | 6 December 1924 |
| NLB/67/282 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [David Meredith Seares] Watson, FRS | 28 November 1924 |
| NLB/67/221 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS | 14 November 1924 |
| NLB/69/181 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esq., FRS | 23 January 1926 |
| NLB/71/277 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, K.B.E., FRS | 13 March 1928 |
| NLB/70/884 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esq., FRS | 29 October 1927 |
| NLB/71/419 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan., FRS | 8 May 1928 |
| NLB/71/842 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 80 Regent Street, W1 | 14 November 1928 |
| NLB/71/860 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. E. Ellis Esq., Lancing College, Shoreham, Sussex | 20 November 1928 |
| EC/1917/11 | Regan, Charles Tate: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/31/44 | Referee's report by Arthur Smith Woodward, on a paper 'The morphology of a rare oceanic fish, Stylophorus chordatus, Shaw; based on specimens collected in the Atlantic by the “Dana” expeditions, 1920-1922' by Charles Tate Regan | 5 February 1924 |
| RR/28/74 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'Heat, moisture, and animal life in deserts' by Patrick Alfred Buxton | [November 1923] |
| RR/31/43 | Referee's report by Sidney Frederic Harmer, on a paper 'The morphology of a rare oceanic fish, Stylophorus chordatus, Shaw; based on specimens collected in the Atlantic by the “Dana” expeditions, 1920-1922' by Charles Tate Regan | 10 December 1923 |
| RR/31/41 | Referee's report by David Meredith Seares Watson, on a paper 'Dwarfed males parasitic on the females in oceanic angler-fishes (Pediculati ceratioidea)' by Charles Tate Regan | 1 December 1924 |
| NLB/70/549 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Charles] Tate Regan Esq., FRS | 16 May 1927 |
| NLB/69/379 | Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to to Prof. [Thomas Renton] Elliott, FRS | 24 March 1926 |
| RR/41/83 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The origin of the mesoderm in the gastropod Viviparus (= Paludina)' by Wilfred Fernando | October 1930 |
| RR/49/87 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'On the physiology of respiration in fishes I. On the bionomics, structure and physiology of respiration in an esturine air-breathing Gobioid fish' by B K Das | [December 1933] |
| RR/34/8 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'Studies in colour changes of fish. - Part II. —An analysis of the colour patterns of the dab. - Part III. —The action of nicotin and adrenalin in the dab. - Part IV. —The action of caffeine in the dab, and a theory of the control of colour changes in fish' by H R Hewer | nd [1926] |
| RR/30/44 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'A contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the air-bladder and Weberian ossicles in Cyprinidae' by H Muir Evans | [November 1924] |
| RR/31/42 | Referee's report by David Meredith Seares Watson, on a paper 'The morphology of a rare oceanic fish, Stylophorus chordatus, Shaw; based on specimens collected in the Atlantic by the “Dana” expeditions, 1920-1922' by Charles Tate Regan | nd [1923] |
| RR/33/110 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The development of the chondrocranium of the eel (anguilla vulgaris), with observations on the comparative morphology and development of the chondrocranium in bony fishes' by J R Norman | October 1925 |
| RR/35/56 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'The bionomics of certain air-breathing fishes of India, together with an account of the development of their air-breathing organs' by B K Das | June 1927 |
| RR/41/79 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'A comparative study of the brains in British cyprinoids in relation to their habits of feeding, with special reference to the anatomy of the medulla oblongata' by H Muir Evans | December 1930 |
| RR/52/52 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'A study of the correlation between the feeding habits and the structure of the hind brain in the South Indian cyprinoid fishes' by B S Bhimachar | November 1934 |
| RR/47/71 | Referee's report by Charles Tate Regan, on a paper 'Studies in animal movement, I. The movements of fish with special reference to the eel' by James Gray | June 1932 |
| MC/31/25 | Letter from [Charles] Tate Regan, Secretary, Natural History Museum, to the [Royal Society] | 4 March 1916 |
| ACS/1/2/2/849 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [Charles] Tate Regan [Esquire], F. R. S | 10 December 1927 |