THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 


Vou. XIII.) NOVEMBER, 1889. [No. 155, 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE FREDERICK BOND, F.Z.S., F.E.S, 
In the list of English naturalists of mark who have passed 
away during the present generation, must, to our regret, be 
included the name of Frederick Bond, who, at the age of 78, 
died at Staines on the 10th of August last. Not that he made 
any remarkable biological discovery, or published any important 
work on Natural History : his claim to distinction as a naturalist 
arises solely from the impetus and encouragement which his 
verbal teaching and the display of his valuable collections 
undoubtedly gave to the study of Zoology in the persons of all 
those, and they were very many, who applied to him for 
information and advice. 
Of his earlier life little is now remembered even by his 
contemporaries. The son of Capt. Bond, of the 77th Regt., he 
was born at Exmouth on the 22nd of February, 1811. He was 
educated at Brighton, and, by his father’s wish, commenced to 
study for the medical profession, but, owing to the repugnance 
which he felt towards the necessary dissection of the human 
subject, a feeling which he was never able to overcome, he 
abandoned his design. Possessing sufficient means to render 
him independent of a profession, he gradually settled down 
to the enjoyment of a country life, —first at Winchmore Hill, 
near Edmonton, and subsequently at Kingsbury, where he 
went to live in 1828, and remained until 1855. In the latter 
year he temporarily took up his abode in London,—first in 
Cavendish Road, St. John’s Wood, and subsequently in Adelaide 
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