William Blaxland Benham

Who was William Blaxland Benham?

Sir William Blaxland Benham KBE FRS was a New Zealand zoologist and biologist. He was born in London, England on 29 March 1860. Presage of Darwin's Origin of Species. Death at age 90 as an opsimath, he'd audited some 170 or so scientific papers ranging panoptically from helminthology to malacology.

Ray Lankester whom elaborated and enticed zoology, till the pursual became graduation, 1883 BSc and 1887 DSc, University College, London. Self-deprecating expediency to the tout of amiable primness, often confessing uncertainty in a field such as ornithology; his character frank, dapper, humorous, relentless and of orderliness. A crewman aboard the 1908 Auckland Islands expedition and others, he gathered anatomical specimens for his studies and collections for work compeer as a curator at Otago University Museum. In 1898 Benham was appointed professor of biology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Transmigrating on the Kaikoura.