Francis Jeffrey Bell (Calcutta, 26 January 1855 - London, 1 April 1924) was an English zoologist who specialised in echinoderms.
He spent most of his life at the British Museum (Natural History), and was also a professor of comparative anatomy at King's College.
[2] In January 1874 he enrolled as a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied zoology and pursued comparative anatomy under George Rolleston.
In that year he also received an appointment as assistant in the zoological department of the British Museum (Natural History), under Albert Günther.
[4] In 1885 he himself published the "Manual of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology", which became a widely used work among medical students.