Educated at University in Canterbury. Bodkin was at one time Government Economic Biologist in British Guiana, and is credited with having done the first serious work on the Coleoptera of that country since Richard Schomburgh in 1848. He published 'Notes on the Coleoptera of British Guiana' in Ent.mon.Mag., 55, 1919, 210-219; 264-272. FZS. FLS. FES 1912-1921. (MD 10/01)