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Edwin Lankester FRS, FRMS, MRCS (23 April 1814 – 30 October 1874) was an English surgeon and naturalist who made a major contribution to the control of cholera in London: he was the first public analyst in England.
May 11, 2024 · Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (born May 15, 1847, London, England—died August 15, 1929, London) was a British authority on general zoology at the turn of the 19th century, who made important contributions to comparative anatomy, embryology, parasitology, and anthropology.
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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester KCB FRS (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist. An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, London, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society.
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Lankester concluded that true species of Schizophyta must be defined not by simple form-features, ‘but by the ensemble of their morphological and physiological properties as exhibited in their complete lifehistories’.
Abstract. THE greatest morphologist of his generation, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester was born a century ago, on May 15, 1847. He was the son of a medical man, he taught medical students, and...
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (lăng´kəstər), 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 ...
Edwin Ray Lankester, 1847-1929. AMONG- the many notable services rendered to Zoological Science by the late Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, probably none is more enduring, certainly none stood higher in his own estimation, than the part he played in the foundation of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. For he was indeed its Founder.
