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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...
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  • Lankester is an English surname. Notable people with the name include: Edwin Lankester (1814–1874), English surgeon and naturalist Ray Lankester (1847–1929)...
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  • century, when belief in orthogenesis was widespread, zoologists such as Ray Lankester and Anton Dohrn and palaeontologists Alpheus Hyatt and Carl H. Eigenmann...
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  • reader." Lankester and Busk co-edited the journal until the end of 1868. Lankester continued to edit the journal with his son, Ray Lankester until the...
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  • supported by some evolutionary biologists, most notably Ernst Haeckel and Ray Lankester. As the 19th century wore on, the increasing emphasis on degeneration...
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    Fish fin (redirect from Fin ray)
    inactive as of September 2024 (link) Gegenbaur, C., F. J. Bell, and E. Ray Lankester. 1878. Elements of Comparative Anatomy. By Carl Gegenbaur ... Tr. by...
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    Craspedacusta sowerbii (category Taxa named by Ray Lankester)
    magyarországi előfordulása | The freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880) in Hungarian waters - REAL - az MTA Könyvtárának Repozitóriuma"...
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    Sclater named the species Equus johnstoni. Subsequently, zoologist Ray Lankester declared that the okapi represented an unknown genus of the Giraffidae...
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    at 31 Steele's Road Jerome K. Jerome, writer, at 41 Belsize Park E. Ray Lankester at 68 Belsize Park Karl Marx, 19th-century political philosopher, at...
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    Formation and Norwich Crag Formation of East Anglia by J. Reid Moir and E. Ray Lankester and in continental Europe by Aimé Louis Rutot and H. Klaatsch – were...
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    Leslie Green, Victoria Cross recipient Andy Hamilton, comedian Sir Ray Lankester, invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist Thandiwe Newton,...
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    from the Cambrian Period. The class Pterobranchia was established by Ray Lankester in 1877. It contained, at that time, the single genus Rhabdopleura....
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    Wilhelm Liebknecht, Gottlieb Lemke, Frederich Lessner, Georg Lochner, Sir Ray Lankester, Carl Schorlemmer and Ernest Radford. A contemporary newspaper account...
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    zoology. It has recently been claimed that it was the direct influence of Ray Lankester, who was Jodrell Professor of Zoology at UCL from 1874 to 1890, and...
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  • May 23, 1889, the poem appeared in an article by British zoologist Ray Lankester, published in the scientific journal Nature, which discussed the work...
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    Wilhelm Liebknecht, Gottlieb Lemke, Frederick Lessner, G Lochner, Sir Ray Lankester, Carl Schorlemmer and Ernest Radford. A contemporary newspaper account...
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    Woodward. Front row: A. S. Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Ray Lankester. The portrait on the wall is of Charles Darwin. Painting by John Cooke...
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  • Conway Range (redirect from Cape Lankester)
    Discovered and named by the BrNAE (1901-04). Probably named for Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum (1898-1907)...
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    and the origin of species. London. Lankester, Ray 1895. The Right Hon. T. H. Huxley. Athenaeum, 6 July. Lankester commented that Huxley was "only accidentally...
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    this, at the London Zoo Fish House, naturalists James S. Bowerbank, Ray Lankester, David W. Mitchell and Philip H. Gosse (the creator of the word aquarium)...
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    and media interest, with speeches from the museum director Professor Ray Lankester, Andrew Carnegie, Lord Avebury on behalf of the trustees, the director...
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    Gordiidae (horsehair worms), was promoted to the rank of phylum by Ray Lankester. The first clear distinction between the nemas and gordiids was realized...
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  • and correction, chief among them Ernest Barker, Harry Johnston, E. Ray Lankester, and Gilbert Murray. The sections were then rewritten and circulated...
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    Archiannelida, is an order of primitive polychaete worms. Zoologist Ray Lankester gave it the name haplodrili, while zoologist Berthold Hatschek later...
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    food and safety very easily obtained, seems to lead to degeneration" Ray Lankester (1880) "We stand now in the midst of a severe mental epidemic; of a...
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    and media interest, with speeches from the museum director Professor Ray Lankester, Andrew Carnegie, Lord Avebury on behalf of the trustees, the director...
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    England. Edwin Lankester was born in 1814 in Melton, near Woodbridge in Suffolk, to 'poor but clever parents' according to his son E. Ray Lankester (Lester 1995)...
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  • Lodge — Modern views on matter 1904 Courtenay Ilbert — Montesquieu 1905 Ray Lankester — Nature and Man 1906 William Paton Ker — Sturla the Historian 1907...
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    fraud many times throughout his career. In a séance in 1876 in London Ray Lankester and Bryan Donkin snatched his slate before the "spirit" message was...
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  • Georg Klebs C. A. Kofoid Jiří Komárek [cs] Friedrich Traugott Kützing Ray Lankester Gordon Frank Leedale [fr] Louis-Urbain-Eugène Léger [fr] Ernst Lemmermann...
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