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RefNoEC/1898/07
Previous numbersCert XII, 65
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TitleHarmer, Sir Sidney Frederic: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationSuperintendent of the University Museum of Zoology, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Engaged for many years in researches in Embryology and Comparative Anatomy. Discoverer of important facts connected with the Anatomy of Cephalodiscus, which largely assisted in fixing its systematic position; and of the occurrence of a process of extensive Embryonic Fission in certain Polyzoa. Author of numerous papers on zoological subjects including the following: - 'On the Structure and Development of 'Loxosoma' (Quart Journ Micros Sci, vol xxv, 1885); 'On the Life-history of Pedicellina' (ibid, xxvii, 1887); 'On the British Species of 'Crisia'' (ibid, xxxii, 1891); 'On the Nature of the Excretory Processes in Marine Polyzoa' (ibid, xxxiii, 1892); 'On the Occurrence of Embryonic Fission in Cyclostomatous Polyzoa' (ibid, xxxiv, 1893); Preliminary Note on Embryonic Fission in 'Lichenopora' (Roy Soc Proc, lvii); 'Appendix to the 'Challenger' Report on 'Cephalodiscus'' ('Challenger' Reports, vol xx); 'Sur l'Embryogenie des Bryozoaires Ectoproctes' (Arch de Zool, 1887); 'Notes on the Anatomy of 'Sinophilus'' (Journ Marine Biol Assoc, 1889). Joint Editor of the Cambridge Natural History. Member of Council of the Marine Biological Association. Is attached to Science, and anxious to promote its progress.
ProposersA Newton; W C McIntosh; A M Norman; F E Beddard; A Sedgwick; W Bateson; D Sharp; H Woodward; S J Hickson; E R Lankester; G J Allman
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Harmer, Sir Sidney Frederic: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6126Harmer; Sir; Sidney Frederic (1862 - 1950); zoologist1862 - 1950
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