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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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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