Ray Lankester

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester ( born May 16, 1847 in London, † August 13 1929 in Chelsea ) was a British zoologist.

Life and work

Edwin Ray Lankester was the son of the physician Edwin Lankester ( 1814-1874 ).

Lankester was 1874-1890 Jodrell Professor of Zoology at University College London and from 1891 to 1898 Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University. From 1898 to 1907 he headed the Natural History Museum in London.

In 1870, he introduced the term homoplasy in the jargon.

Honors

In 1875 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, which honored him in 1885 with the Royal Medal in 1913 and the Copley Medal. 1920 Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London awarded him. In 1907 he was awarded the second-class Bathorden ( KCB ) the Order of the Bath.

Trivia

Ray Lankester was one of the mourners at the funeral of Karl Marx on 17 March 1883 in London.

Works

  • On the Use of the Term Homology in Modern Zoology, and the Distinction in between Homo Homo Genetic and Plastic agreements. In: The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany, and Geology, 4th Series, Volume 6, 1870, pp. 34-43
  • A Monograph of the Cephalaspidian Fishes (1870 )
  • Developmental History of the Mollusca (1875 )
  • Degeneration ( 1880)
  • Limulus: An Arachnid (1881 )
  • The Advancement of Science ( 1889), collected essays
  • Zoological Articles ( 1891)
  • A Treatise on Zoology ( 1900-09 ), ( editor)
  • Extinct Animals (1905 )
  • Nature and Man ( 1905)
  • The Kingdom of Man (1907 )

Swell

  • Kurzbiographischer entry at the Royal Society (English )
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