Prof. F. W. Gamble, F.R.S

Abstract

A DISTINGUISHED English zoologist, a remarkably fine teacher and a man of a singular charm of character, has been lost to science by the death, on September 14, of Prof. Frederick William Gamble, Mason professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of Birmingham. He was born in Manchester on July 13, 1869, and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and at the Owens College. At the College he came under the influence of the late Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, and catching his enthusiasm for the study of animal morphology, devoted himself to zoological studies. After taking his degree with first-class honours in the newly established Victoria University and gaining the Bishop Berkeley research fellowship, he went abroad and studied for a time in the University of Leipzig. The first two papers from his pen, one on our rare British Nudibranchs, published in 1892, and the other on the British marine Turbellaria, published in 1893, were descriptive and systematic in character, but already they showed evidence of the tendency of his mind towards the experimental side of the subject.