. . . . . "Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell"@en . . . "Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (20 June 1877 \u2013 8 November 1918), the biologist, physician and author, was the only son of the architect Herbert Spurrell and Harriet Rebecca Blaxland. He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk. A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat and Spurrell's Woolly Bat."@en . . "Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (20 June 1877 \u2013 8 November 1918), the biologist, physician and author, was the only son of the architect Herbert Spurrell and Harriet Rebecca Blaxland. He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk. A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat and Spurrell's Woolly Bat. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps; he died of pneumonia at Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 November 1918. He was also the author of a number of books, both scientific and fictional: \n* The Commonwealth of Cells: Some popular essays on human physiology, 1901, Bailliere, Tindall & Cox \n* Out of the Past, 1903, Greening \n* At Sunrise: A story of the Beltane, 1904, Greening \n* Patriotism: A biological study, 1911, George Bell & Sons \n* Modern Man and his Forerunners: A short study of the human species living and extinct, 1917, George Bell & Sons"@en .