3n flDemoriam. 
JOHN BEDDOE, M.D., LL.D., Edin., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., LoN. r 
Honorary Professor of Anthropology in the University of Bristol ', 
Officier de V Instruction Publique ( I re Classe ), France , formerly 
President of the Royal Anthropological Institute \ and of the 
Wiltshire Archceological and Natural History Society, Associate 
of the Anthropological Society Paris, and Corresponding 
Member of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin, Sweden, 
and Rome; Honorary Member of the Anthropological Societies 
of Brussels, Washington, and of the Bristol Naturalists' Society \ 
Consulting Physician to the Children' s Hospital and to the 
Dispensary, Bristol, &C. 
In Dr. Beddoe we have lost not only a thinker and worker of 
European reputation, but a man whose kindly and lovable character 
endeared him to all who had the privilege of knowing him 
personally. Though he always looked frail he retained to the 
last his mental and physical energy, and only a few days before 
his death, on July 19th, he assisted in showing the antiquities of 
Bradford to a party of visitors. 
As we learn from his Memories of Eighty Years, he was born 
at Bewdley, on September 21st, 1826, in a district where there 
are several families named Beddoe, Beddoes, and Beddows, all 
probably derived from the same Welsh Tribe, the Fifth, in 
Radnorshire. Dr. Thomas Beddoes, the chemist, a century earlier 
came from the same locality. 
From infancy Dr. Beddoe had more than an ordinary share of 
ill-health. He broke down at School in Bridgenorth, and after- 
wards when a law student w r ith a series of severe illnesses, but 
nothing checked his industry. He was led to take up the medical 
profession through some youthful investigations into the compara- 
tive value of foods, in which he had himself devised what are 
practically " Calories" as a basis of calculation. This work 
was typical both of his painstaking habits and of his ingenious 
methods. He entered at University College, London, and later 
on at Edinburgh, where he spent fifteen months as house physician. 
Lister, Sir William Roberts, Flower, Patrick Heron Watson, and 
Sir W. Gairdner, were among his companions. In one of his 
vacation tours at this time he went to the Orkneys and Shetland 
and commenced his investigations into the colour of the hair and 
eyes as an anthropological test, which was his chief hobby for 
most of his after life. He then served as a Civil Surgeon in the 
Crimea, and afterwards enjoyed a tour in Asia Minor, where he 
availed himself fully of the ethnological opportunities which the 
country afforded. Travels over various parts of Europe followed, 
and in 1857 he settled down to practice as a physician at Clifton, 
though the prospect was not encouraging, for at that time Symonds, 
