Lankester, Edwin Ray

Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002541

(1847–1929) English zoologist, Darwinian and popularizer of natural history.

Keywords: zoology; natural history; Darwinism; Lamarckism; popular science

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Further Reading
	book Lankester ER (1910) Science From an Easy Chair. London: Methuen.
	book Lankester ER (1915) Diversions of a Naturalist. London: Methuen.
	book Lankester ER (1923) Great and Small Things. London: Methuen.
	book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1972) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Lester J and Bowler PJ (1995) E. Ray Lankester and the Making of Modern British Biology. Farringdon, UK: British Society for the History of Science.