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Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (20 June 1877 – 8 November 1918), the biologist, physician and author, was the only son of the architect Herbert Spurrell and Harriet Rebecca Blaxland. He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk. A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat and Spurrell's Woolly Bat. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps; he died of pneumonia at Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 November 1918. He was also the author of a number of books, both scientific and fictional: * ''The Commonwealth of Cells: Some popular essays on human physiology'', 1901, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox * ''Out of the Past'', 1903, Greening * ''At Sunrise: A story of the Beltane'', 1904, Greening * ''Patriotism: A biological study'', 1911, George Bell & Sons * ''Modern Man and his Forerunners: A short study of the human species living and extinct'', 1917, George Bell & Sons ==References== Obituary, ''The British Medical Journal'', 30 November 1918 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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