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.

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