Author:Edwin Ray Lankester

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Edwin Ray Lankester (1847–1929)

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KCB, FRS; British zoologist

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "E. R. L."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "E. R. L."

Edwin Ray Lankester

Works

• Nature and Man, 1905 Romanes Lecture

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Huxley's American Lectures" in Popular Science Monthly, 11 (October 1877)
• "The Crayfish" in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (April 1880)
• "Bacteria as Destroyers of Insects" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (May 1880)
• "Recent Progress in Biology" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (September 1885)
• "Nature and Man" in Popular Science Monthly, 67 (September 1905)

Contributions to EB9

• “Vertebrata” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

• "Arachnida," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Arthropoda," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lamellibranchia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Metamerism," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mollusca," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Mussel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Zoology," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Lankester

• "Lankester, Edwin Ray," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Zoology," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (footnote, p. 1031)
• "Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)