| Authorised form of name | Bather; Francis Arthur (1863 - 1934); palaeontologist, geologist, and malacologist |
| Dates | 1863 - 1934 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Richmond, Surrey, England |
| Date of birth | 17 February 1863 |
| Place of death | Wimbledon, Surrey , England |
| Date of death | 20/03/1934 |
| Occupation | palaeontologist |
| Research field | Invertebrate zoology |
| Geology |
| Palaeontology |
| Activity | Education:
Winchester College; MA (Oxon); DSc (Oxon)
Career: Joined the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum (1887); became keeper in succession to Arthur Smith Woodward (FRS 1901) (1924-1928).
Memberships:
FGS; FZS; Palaeontological Society of America; American Museum of Natural History; Geological Society of China; Geolo-giska Foreningen, Stockholm; Foreign Member of the Kaiserlich deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher zu Halle; Hon. Member of the Geological Society of Cornwall; of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; of the Societe Linneenne de Normandie; of the Societe Beige de Geologie; Danish Academy, Copenhagen.
Medals/Awards:
Lyell Medal
Mary Clark Thompson Medal 1932 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1909 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| Proposer | Edwin Ray Lankester; Arthur Smith Woodward; George Albert Boulenger; Henry Woodward; William Abbott Herdman; Edwin Tulley Newton; Peter Chalmers Mitchell; George Jennings Hinde; John Evans; Edward Hull; Clement Reid |
| Relationships | Parents: Arthur Henry Bather, who was deaf, was a clerk in the office of the Accountant-General for the Navy and Lucy Elizabeth Blomfield, daughter of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London.
Spouse: Stina Bergöö, daughter of Adolf Bergöö of Stockholm, and sister of the Swedish artist Karin Bergöö Larsson (1896).
Children: One daughter and two sons. |
| Published works | RCN 13584
RCN 13583
RCN 26863
RCN 50291
RCN 2036 |
| General context | He was particularly interested in Echinoderms, especially the Pelmatozoa; specifically the Crinoids.
He reviewed fossil invertebrates generally and published papers on Cephalopoda and Brachiopoda, as well as on general biology and geology. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 303-314, plate, by William Dickson Lang |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/20461040 |
| Royal Society code | NA1297 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1909/09 | Bather, Francis Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000292 | Bather, Francis Arthur | nd |
| RR/38/45 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'Skeletal development in Arbacia, Echinarachnius and Leptasterias' by Isabella Gordon | June 1928 |
| NLB/40/710 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 16 July 1909 |
| NLB/13/293 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Arthur Bather | 21 June 1896 |
| NLB/13/288 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society | 21 July 1896 |
| NLB/15/291 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Arthur Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W. | 29 June 1897 |
| NLB/46/190 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Francis Arthur Bather, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fabo, Marryat Road, Wimbledon | 24 June 1912 |
| NLB/40/545 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Francis] A [Arthur] Bather FRS | 25 June 1909 |
| NLB/41/832 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Francis Arthur Bather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 March 1910 |
| MC/25/22 | Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, Royal Society | 5 March 1910 |
| MC/27/20 | Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, Fabo, Marryat Road, Wimbledon Common, S.W, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 29 April 1912 |
| NLB/44/717 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Francis] A [Arthur] Bather FRS | 27 October 1911 |
| RR/20/134 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer | 8 February 1913 |
| NLB/72/395 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 30 September 1929 |
| NLB/59/505 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 9 October 1920 |
| NLB/59/177 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 23 July 1920 |
| NLB/62/679 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 5 April 1922 |
| NLB/69/364 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 18 March 1926 |
| NLB/71/126 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 16 January 1928 |
| NLB/69/914 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 16 November 1926 |
| NLB/71/108 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 6 January 1928 |
| NLB/70/702 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 8 July 1927 |
| NLB/70/729 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr G. Horvath; National Museum, Budapest, Hungary | 14 July 1927 |
| NLB/72/647 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 12 February 1930 |
| NLB/73/64 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 14 November 1930 |
| IM/Maull/000291 | Bather, Francis Arthur | nd |
| NLB/45/732 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Francis] A [Arthur] Bather FRS | 1 May 1912 |
| RR/19/129 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'On Onychester, a Carboniferous brittle-star' by Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas | [December 1912] |
| NLB/59/195 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS | 24 July 1920 |
| RR/33/89 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'The development of the calcareous test of Echinocardium cordatum' by Isabella Gordon | April 1926 |
| RR/18/182 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'Lapworthura: a typical brittlestar of the Silurian age; with suggestions for a new classification of the Ophiuroidea' by Igerna Sollas and William Johnson Sollas | 24 July 1911 |
| RR/32/123 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'On a new type of crustacean from the old red sandstone (Rhymie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire) — Lepidocaris rhyniensis' by D J Scourfield | July 1925 |
| RR/36/33 | Referee's report by Francis Arthur Bather, on a paper 'On the skulls of early Tertiary Suidae, together with an account of the otic region in some other primitive Artiodactyla' by Helga Sharpe Pearson | 24 March 1927 |
| MC/25/21 | Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W, to Robert Harrison, Librarian, Royal Society | 1 March 1910 |
| MC/25/20 | Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S. W, to the Editor, Proceedings of the Royal Society, [Royal Society] | 17 February 1910 |
| NLB/41/780 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Francis Arthur Bather, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 February 1910 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |
| MC/27/21 | Letter from [Francis Arthur] Bather, Fabo, Marryat Road, Wimbledon Common, S.W, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 1 May 1912 |
| MC/27/180 | Letter from John Horne, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, to the [Royal Society] | 21 December 1912 |
| MC/27/179 | Letter from John Horne, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, to The Secretaries, Royal Society | 18 January 1912 |
| MC/27/363 | Letter from [Arthur] Smith Woodward, 4 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 18 May 1912 |