Ray Lankester

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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, 1918

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (born May 15, 1847 in London , † August 13, 1929 in Chelsea ) was a British zoologist .

Live and act

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

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

In 1870 he introduced the term homoplasia into technical language.

Honors

In 1875 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which awarded him in 1885 the Royal Medal and 1913 with the Copley Medal . In 1920 he was awarded the Linné Medal of the Linnean Society of London . In 1907 he received the Bath Order of the Second Class (KCB) of the Order of the Bath . He was also a member of numerous other academies and learned societies at home and abroad, including the Académie des sciences in Paris (since 1899), the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund (since 1902), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (also since 1902) , the National Academy of Sciences (since 1903) and the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (since 1922). In addition, Cape Lankester in Antarctica is named after him. In 1906 he was ennobled: sir .

Trivia

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

Works

  • On the Use of the Term Homology in Modern Zoology, and the Distinction between Homogenetic and Homoplastic 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: To 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)

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literature

  • Lewis S. Feuer: The Letters of Edwin Ray Lankester to Karl Marx. The Last Stage in Marx's Interllectual Evolution . In: Journal of the History of Ideas . Vol. XL. October-December 1979. Number 4, pp. 633-648. Letters dated September 19, 1880; September 27, 1880; December 25, 1880 and February 17, 1881 to Karl Marx.

Web links

Commons : Ray Lankester  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847-1929) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 8, 2020 (French).
  3. ^ Nordisk familjebok vol. 15, 1911, col. 1161 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Engels: The funeral of Karl Marx
personal data
SURNAME Lankester, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1929
Place of death Chelsea (London)