Sir Edwin Ray Lankester , 1847-1929, English zoologist. He was a professor at University College, London (1874-90) and Oxford (1891-98) and was director of the natural history department of the British Museum (1898-1907). He was a founder (1884) of the Marine Biological Association, which established an important station at Plymouth. Influential as teacher and writer on biological theories, comparative anatomy, and evolution, Lankester studied the protozoa, mollusca, and arthropoda. He was knighted in 1907.
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The Legend of St Cuthbert's Beads: A Palaeontological and Geological Perspective.
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... find is by John Ray in 1671. He visited ... his itineraries, Ray stated: July the ... much later (see Lankester 1846, 150-1), Ray did publish a note ... the Holy Island (Ray 1673, 116). In ... 6181). Lister and Ray were correspondents and Ray may have transmitted ... Britain are based ...
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Coroners' interested advocacy: understanding wrongful accusations and convictions.
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; 9/1/2006; Kramar, Kirsten; 6569 words;
... and self-described child-abuse expert Sir Professor Roy Meadow resulted in the wrongful ... coroners Thomas Wakeley (1795-1862) and Edwin Lankester (1814-1874). Wakeley was a Radical reformer ... publication of the results of administering x-ray technology to the bodies of dead infants ...
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Obituary: Alexander Skutch; Old-fashioned naturalist who became the world's foremost expert on Neotropical birds.(Obituaries)
The Independent (London, England); 6/14/2004; Marren, Peter; 774 words;
... Pamela, daughter of the English naturalist Sir Ray Lankester, whom he married in 1950, and their adopted son Edwin, he stayed there for the rest of his ... Maryland 4 May 1904; married 1950 Pamela Lankester (died 2001; one adopted son); died San ...
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