Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

His zoological author abbreviation is Stebbing.

Biography Caricature of Samuel Wilberforce, known as "Soapy Sam", from an 1869 issue of Vanity Fair: Wilberforce ordained Stebbing in 1859, but became a staunch opponent of Darwinism, while Stebbing became a fervent supporter. Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing was born on 6 February 1835 in Euston Square, London, the seventh of thirteen to a clergyman and the editor of the Athenaeum, Henry Stebbing, and his wife, Mary Griffin.

Evolution and religion Having trained as an evangelical Anglican, Stebbing expected to be a staunch opponent of Charles Darwin's recently published theory of evolution by natural selection. and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1908. Hyale stebbingi Chevreux, 1888 (Amphipoda: Hyalidae) Parapodascon stebbingi (Giard & Bonnier, 1895) (Isopoda: Podasconidae) Argissa stebbingi Bonnier, 1896, a synonym of Argissa hamatipes (Norman, 1869) (Amphipoda: Argissidae) Phronima stebbingii Vosseler, 1901 (Amphipoda: Phronimidae) Metapenaeus stebbingi (Nobili, 1904) (Decapoda: Penaeidae) Protellopsis stebbingii Pearse, 1908 (Amphipoda: Caprellidae) Sphyrapus stebbingi Richardson, 1911 (Tanaidacea: Sphyrapidae) Macropisthopus stebbingi K. A. Barnard, 1916 (Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) Carpias stebbingi (Monod, 1933) (Isopoda: Janiridae) Pardaliscoides stebbingi Ledoyer, 1970 (Amphipoda: Pardaliscidae)

Publications

(published in three parts, 1900, 1914, 1920)

(in English)