Arthur Humphreys Foord

[1] Foord worked in a commercial business from 1861 to 1871, during which time he built a reputation for his natural history illustrations.

In early 1872, the Geological Survey of Canada appointed Foord as a natural history artist, a position he held until 1883.

During this time he was heavily influenced by Elkanah Billings, Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, and Henry Alleyne Nicholson.

He worked as a volunteer at the British Museum (Natural History) and took up private study of geology with Thomas Rupert Jones and practical zoology and comparative anatomy with George Bond Howes and T. Johnson.

His first publication was "Contribution to the micro-palaeontology of the Cambro-Silurian rocks of Canada" in 1883, which was followed by 5 papers on fossil corals in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History between 1884 and 1886, while in collaboration with Robert Etheridge junior and Henry A.

In 1896 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Munich having submitted a thesis to Karl Alfred von Zittel.