Lankester, Edwin Ray ♂
Education
LL.D. 10.1.1885.
Birth/childhood
Born 15.5.1847 eldest son of Edwin Lankester M.D., London and Phebe Pope.
Career
Studied at Cambridge and Oxford Universities [Cambridge University, Oxford University].
Professor of Zoology, University College, London 1874-1890. [University professor]
(Professor of Natural History, Edinburgh University for three weeks in 1882).
Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University 1891-1898. Director, British Museum (Natural History) 1898-1907. K.C.B. [Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath] 1907.
Hon D.Sc Oxford and Leeds Universities [Oxford University, Leeds University].
Publications
Extinct animals.(New York: Henry Holt, 1903)
Nature and man. (The Romanes lecture 1905). Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, June 14, 1905.
Death
Died 15.8.1929.
Sources
- Who was Who
- DNB
- Ray Lankester in Wikipedia.