142 DE. BEDDOE, F.E.S. 



at Cliftou, where he has till lately been located. He held 

 the phjsicianshiiJ to the Bristol Infirmary for eleven years, 

 and is still consulting physician to the Bristol Dispensary 

 and to the Bristol Children's Hospital. He has also been 

 president of the Bristol Nataralists' Society, of the Bristol 

 and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, and of the Bristol 

 and Bath Branch of the British Medical Association. 



Of his medical writings, the most notable are a paper on 

 Hospital Dietaries, reprinted from the Dublin Journal, in 

 which he treated the subject from the economical and from 

 the physio- chemical points of view, and one on the com- 

 parative mortality of England and Australia. He wrote the 

 article on "Mortality" for Quain's Dictionary, and two 

 Presidential Addresses on Public Health — one statistical, 

 for the local Medical Association — the other suggestive, for 

 the Health Section of the Social Science Association, at its 

 Edinburo-h meeting-. 



Dr. Beddoe was an office-holder in the Ethnological 

 Society, and contributed papers to its transactions ; but he 

 early joined the Anthropological Society on its foundation 

 by James Hunt, and was its president for two years. More 

 recently he has held the same post in the Anthropological 

 Institute. He was also for several years a member of 

 Council' of the British Association, in which he attached 

 himself chiefly to the Geographical and Statistical Sections, 

 and it was partly owing to his exertions, aided by those of 

 Sir William Turner and the late Allen Thomson, that anthro- 

 pology assumed a permanent position in the oi-ganisation of 

 the Association. 



In 1873 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and in the same year became a Fellow^ of the College of 

 Physicians. He is an honorary member of the principal 

 foreign Anthropological Societies. His published papers in 



