The following biographical sketch is from American Malacologists, first
edition, 1974:

BERNARD, F(rank) R(heinhold), born Aug. 22, 1940, in Belgium.  Citizen:
Canadian.  Marine Zoologist; Malacologist.  Univ. of London, B.Sc.,
1970;  Ph.D., 1972.  Biologist, Fish. Research Board Canada, since 1964.
 Memb.: Mal. Soc. London; Can. Soc. Zool.; Amer. Micros. Soc.; So.
Calif. Acad. Sci.; Res. Assoc. in Invert. Zool., Nat. Hist. Mus. Los
Angeles Co.  Publ.: over 27 prof. papers; A Distributional Checklist of
the Marine Molluscs of British Columbia: Based on Faunistic Surveys
since 1950, Syesis, Vol. 3, 1970; Ocurrence and Function of Lip
Hypertrophy in the Anisomyaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia), 1972; The Genus
Thyasira in Western Canada, 1972.  Contrib.: Malacologia, Nautilus,
Veliger, Can. Jour. Zool.  Research: Morphology and systematics of
living and quartenary bivalves of the Eastern Pacific.  Travel:
extensive collecting in northeastern Pacific, intertidal to 1500
fathoms; Mediterranean.  Office address: Fisheries Research Board of
Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B.C., Canada.