Keppel Harcourt Barnard

From 1905 to 1908 this unusually gifted and versatile scholar attended Christ's College, Cambridge, taking the Natural Sciences Tripos in Botany, Geology and Zoology.

was from the University of Cape Town with a dissertation on the "Distribution of Crustacea in South African Waters", and he eventually became a world authority on crustaceans.

His other favoured field was the taxonomy and classification of South African fishes, a discipline in which he did important pioneering work.

Barnard's studies of South African Crustacea, Mollusca, fishes and insects added significantly to our knowledge of these groups.

He was undoubtedly one of South Africa's greatest zoologists but a modest and retiring man despite his prodigious scientific achievements.