Edwin Stephen Goodrich

Edwin Stephen Goodrich FRS[1] (Weston-super-Mare, 21 June 1868 – Oxford, 6 January 1946), was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, palaeontology, and evolution.

In 1888 he entered the Slade School of Art at University College London; there he met E. Ray Lankester, who interested him in zoology.

He drew diagrams of beauty and clarity whilst lecturing (students used to photograph the blackboard before it was erased), and in his books and papers.

A small, dapper, thin man with a dry sense of humor, he always complained that, when travelling by air, he was not weighed with his luggage, since his own weight was only half that of an average passenger.

Goodrich's attention was always focused on evolution, to which he made notable contributions, firmly adhering to Darwin's theory of natural selection.

[4] On his seventieth birthday, in 1938, his colleagues and pupils published a festschrift[5] edited by Gavin de Beer: Evolution: essays on aspects of evolutionary biology.