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Howes was an eminently gifted teacher. The comprehensiveness of the biology courses at the Royal College of Science attested to his knowledge and thoroughness. He invested much of his energy in founding and supporting societies concerned with the natural sciences, serving as office bearer in many of
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in 1874, his skill as a draughtsman and enthusiasm as a naturalist led to his being employed as assistant to Huxley. He was tasked with developing a system of practical instruction in biology at the Normal School of Science and the
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He was born, probably in Kennington, London, the eldest son of hosier Thomas Johnson Howes and Augusta Mary Bond, daughter of George Augustus Bond, a captain in the
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these. His drawing skills were well above average: the Atlas of Elementary Biology (1885) was illustrated entirely with his drawings.
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Moore J. E. (1898). "The mollusks of the Great African lakes. 2. The anatomy of the Typhobias, with a description of a new genus (
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In 1881 Howes married Annie, daughter of James Watkins. They had one daughter.
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F. W. Gamble, rev. V. M. Quirke. "Howes, Thomas George Bond (1853–1905)".
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at Kensington, where he was appointed demonstrator of biology in 1880.
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howsei, the type species of the genus Bathanalia, is named after him.
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Obituary notes in Journal of Molluscan Studies 6.6 (1905): 315-318
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from 1885. From 1895, Howes was first professor of zoology at the
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and appeared in Transactions of the Zoological Society, 1901.
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Howes's main interest lay with the comparative anatomy of the
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Plate from "Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology" (1885)
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Thomas George Bond Howes
FRS

Newington
London

Newington, London
Chiswick
East India Company
Normal School of Science
Royal College of Science
Thomas Huxley
Royal School of Mines
Vertebrata
H. H. Swinnerton
Norfolk Island
Sphenodon
John Edmund Sharrock Moore
Fellow of the Royal Society
Legum Doctor
Doctor of Science
Malacological Society of London
Anatomical Society
Linnean Society
Zoological Society of London
Bathanalia
Zoology and Food Fishes (1883)
Atlas of practical elementary biology (1885)
Beard, J.
"Professor George Bond Howes, F.R.S."

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