Ray Lankester

The authorities additionally record the headings Sir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS, Edwin Ray Lankester, Lank., E. Ray Lankester and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. His recorded language was English.

He was the child of Edwin Lankester and Phoebe Lankester.

Ray Lankester studied at Christ Church, Downing College and St Paul's School. His recorded influences include Thomas Henry Huxley.

As a teacher, Ray Lankester is recorded in connection with Robert Francis Scharff and Edwin Stephen Goodrich. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Ray Lankester worked in zoology, evolutionary biology, natural history collection and art collection.

He was employed by University College London. Recorded positions include Linacre Professor of Zoology and museum director. He belonged to Royal Society, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. He worked at London.

Ray Lankester received Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal and Linnean Medal.

19 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service. The first 12 are listed here.

A treatise on zoology. Extinct animals. A general guide to the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. : with plans and a view of the building. Elements of comparative anatomy. Vegetable substances used for the food of man. Studies on Apus, Limulus and Scorpio. Contributions to the developmental history of the Mollusca. Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the "Southern Cross.". Science from an easy chair : a second series. Zoological articles contributed to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica". Diversions of a naturalist. Secrets of earth and sea.

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

E. Ray. Lankester, Journal of Cell Science, 1894. Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (1847–1929), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Lankester, Edwin Ray, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, 2001. RAY LANKESTER., The Lancet, 1929. Zoological articles contributed to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" / by E. Ray Lankester, to which are added kindred articles by W. Johnson Sollas ... [et al.]., 1891.

Ray Lankester studied at Christ Church, Downing College and St Paul's School. Robert Francis Scharff and Edwin Stephen Goodrich are recorded as having studied under Ray Lankester. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is zoology, evolutionary biology and natural history collection. Thomas Henry Huxley is recorded as an influence.

Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Employment is recorded with University College London. Positions recorded include Linacre Professor of Zoology and museum director. Membership is recorded of Royal Society, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony and Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Copley Medal and Royal Medal.