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George Parker Bidder 1863–1953

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

F. S. Russell
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The death of George Parker Bidder in his 91st year on 31 December 1953 has removed our last personal link with the days of the early development of the Marine Biological Association and its struggle for existence between the end of last century and a few years before the First World War. After the death of E. J. Allen in 1942 the only other survivor who had played a major part in the story besides Bidder was Walter Garstang, who died in 1949. Apart from those like Allen and Garstang, who were directly responsible for carrying out the work for which the Association was founded, no one contributed more vitally to its final success than Bidder, whose shrewd counsel and wise benefactions were undoubted factors in the survival of the Plymouth laboratory. In these days of recognition by the Government of the needs of science it is not easy for us to appreciate what the difficulties must have been for those who had to prove to an unresponsive audience that marine biological research was worth while. Those men were remarkable in their generation, and one of the most remarkable of them was G. P. Bidder.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1955 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1955

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