Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) mb-height 3338 26th April 1941

26th April 1941

playing a variety of instruments & singing

A seal chain or decoration is visible at his waistband

View of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park which housed the Great Exhibition in 1851

Portrait of William Blaxland Benham (1860-1950) mb-height 3338 26th April 1941Formal photographic portrait of William Blaxland Benham, half length, full face. Inscription on card reads: 'MAULL & FOX 187 PICCADILLY LONDON, W.' Benham was appointed professor of biology at Bedford College for Women, London, in 1886. He became professor of biology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1898 and later became the president of the New Zealand Institute (1916 1917). Benham's main area of study was on the microstructure