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	Ray Lankester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, FRS (May 15, 1847 - August 13, 1929) was a British zoologist.
		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, and was director of the Natural History Museum from 1898 to 1907.
		Influential as teacher and writer on biological theories, comparative anatomy, and evolution, Lankester studied the protozoa, mollusca, and arthropoda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ray_Lankester (148 words)

	Homology vs Homogeny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In fact, the basis of Lankester's paper was to replace the term homology, and the associated terms homologue and homologous, with the two new terms homogeny and homoplasy.
		Lankester's ideas gained only partial acceptance, as is obvious by the common, though irregular reference to homoplasy in 20th century evolutionary biology, whereas the notion of homogeny has received virtually no positive consideration.
		What I will point out in my talk today is that Lankester's wholesale replacement of the term of homology with the dual terms homogeny and homoplasy were in fact correct, contrary to past commentaries against the use of homogeny in lieu of the continued use of the term homology in evolutionary biology.
	www.nhm.org /research/annelida/homology/sld011.html (145 words)

	RAP - Online Information article about RAP
		pillar-like junctions of the two surfaces in both cases (see Lankester (4)), and the free surfaces of the adjacent lamellae being covered with a very delicate chitinous cuticle which is drawn out into delicate hairs and processes.
		Similar observations were made by Laurie (17) in Lankester's laboratory (189o) with regard to the early condition of the coxal gland of Scorpio, and by Bertkau (41) as to that of the spider Atypus.
		In Limulus Lankester found (15) the spermatozoa to possess active flagelliform " tails," and to resemble very closely those of Scorpio which, as are those of most terrestrial Arthropoda, are actively motile.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/RAP.html (9331 words)

	RAY (OR WRAY), JOHN - LoveToKnow Article on RAY (OR WRAY), JOHN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ray was chosen minor fellow of Trinity in 1649, and in due course became a major fellow on proceeding to the master's degree.
		Ray's reputation was high also as a tutor; and he communicated his own passion for natural history to several pupils, of whom Francis Willughby is by far the most famous.
		Ray's quiet college life closed when he found himself unable to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity of 1661, and was obliged to give up his fellowship in 1662, the year after Isaac Newton had entered the college.
	www.1911ency.org /R/RA/RAY_OR_WRAY_JOHN.htm (2094 words)

	MBA Research
		Ray Lankester was a brilliant zoologist who studied arthropods, molluscs and protozoans.
		Lankester actively promoted fishery research at Plymouth and was instrumental in obtaining the grant from the government for the MBA to conduct the English share of the International North Sea investigations, 1902-09.
		The Ray Lankester Investigatorship was named after him, It was funded by G.P. Bidder from the nominal profits of the lease to the MBA of R.V. ’Huxley‘ for the North Sea work, and the nominal profits from the sale of the vessel when the Government withdrew the grant for the North Sea work.
	www.mba.ac.uk /research/research.php?awardsgrants (1197 words)

	Search Results for "Ray ..."
		Ray, Satyajit, (satya´jit ri, ra) (KEY), 1921-92, Indian film director, b.
		...The noun X ray is so named because the ray was an unknown quantity—rendered in mathematics as X—at the time of its discovery.
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	The Perpetrator at Piltdown
		Lankester also provided some physical traits, but his greatest contributions were to the development of the personality and background of the almost inimical Professor Challenger.
		Lankester had arranged to attend a seance with Slade, the purpose of which was to communicate with a spirit.
		Lankester viewed this as certain evidence of an intent to cheat and defraud him of the fee he had paid Slade, evidence that "would be convincing to persons not already lost to reason." A magistrate agreed, though Slade was released on a technicality and left England as expeditiously as he could.
	home.tiac.net /~cri_a/piltdown/winslow.html (4734 words)

	Lamarck versus Weismann, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Ray Lankester adopts the same view, I will make a few remarks upon the case Mr.
		Cunningham italicizes the words, "the constant repetition of this effort causes the eye gradually to move round the head till it comes to the upper side," and claims this as a Lamarckian explanation.
		Ray Lankester for his careful and appreciative review of my book.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S415.htm (489 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Grant was succeeded briefly by Sir William Henry Allchin (1846-1912) but in 1875 it was Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847-1929) who took over Grant’s chair and the running of the museum.
		Lankester did much to build the Museum collection, moving it to new premises and creating a detailed printed label catalogue.
		Ray Lankester was hugely influential both as a teacher and a scientist.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /museums/zoology/collections/history (730 words)

	Packard
		Lankester, influenced by German biologist Anton Dohrn (1840-1909), wrote that blindness among cave animals was due to a special kind of natural selection.
		In each generation, those that have good eyes were able to see the light and escape, and eventually only those that are blind remained in the cave (Lankester 1893).
		Lankester also believed that one can find organisms degenerating ontogenetically and phylogenetically.
	www.clt.astate.edu /aromero/new_page_62.htm (607 words)

	Lankester, Edwin Ray - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lankester, Edwin Ray
		Lankester was born in London, son of the prominent scientific writer, Edwin Lankester, and attended Downing College, Cambridge.
		During his second year at university he moved to Oxford where he graduated in natural sciences from Christchurch College.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lankester,+Edwin+Ray (266 words)

	Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Worm) Around The Old Reef Rock... - Reefkeeping.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lankester was pretty much the dean of British scientists at the end of the Victorian period, and as one of his many perks, enjoyed golfing privileges at St. Andrews golf course in Scotland.
		Lankester also collected a sipunculan, or peanut, worm on one his forays into this golfing intertidal zone.
		Ray Lankester's long nemertean found by the golf course was probably a species of Lineus.
	www.reefkeeping.com /issues/2004-01/rs/index.php (3736 words)

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		The Scientific Memoirs, thanks to the generous enterprise of the same publishing firm, with which he was so long associated, and to the pious labours of Sir Michael Foster and Professor Ray Lankester, are in process of reissue in the form of four volumes, two of which have now appeared.
		In the article upon Mollusca, written for the ninth edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_, by Professor Ray Lankester, the same device of an archetypal or, as Lankester calls it, a schematic mollusc, is employed in order to explain the relations of the different structures found in different groups of molluscs to one another.
		Lankester's schematic mollusc differs from Huxley's archetypal mollusc only as a finished modern piece of mechanism, the final result of years of experiment, differs from the original invention.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16935/16935-8.txt (16485 words)

	AIM25: University College London: Lankester Lectures, notes
		Scope and content/abstract: Manuscript notes and sketches on a course of lectures on zoology given by Sir Edwin Lankester (1847-1929).
		The Natural History Museum, London, holds papers of Lankester; letters to C E Fagan, 1898-1920 (Ref: DF939); 42 items of correspondence with Albert and R W T Gunther, 1884-1908 (Ref: L MSS GUNTHER COLL (20)).
		The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom holds Lankester's correspondence and papers as its honorary secretary, 1884-1888 (Ref: MB2.1).
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/13/4041.htm (215 words)

	ISS: Henry Slade and Dr. Monck: Arthur Conan Doyle
		Early in September, 1876, Professor Ray Lankester with Dr. Donkin had two sittings with Slade, and on the second occasion, seizing the slate, he found writing on it when none was supposed to have taken place.
		Wallace pointed out that Professor Lankester's account of what happened was so completely unlike what occurred during his own visit to the medium, as well as the recorded experience of Serjeant Cox, Dr. Carter Blake, and many others, that he could only look upon it as a striking example of Dr.
		The magistrate described the testimony as "overwhelming" as to the evidence for the phenomena, but in giving judgment he excluded everything but the evidence of Lankester and his friend Dr. Donkin, saying that he must base his decision on "inferences to be drawn from the known course of nature." A statement made by Mr.
	www.survivalafterdeath.org /articles/doyle/slade.htm (5931 words)

	Two Darwinian Essays, by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Lankester's British Association evening lecture last year at Sheffield, now republished with illustrations as one of the useful little volumes of the "Nature Series." It discusses the little-known phenomena of "Degeneration" as a phase of development much more general, and of far greater importance than is usually supposed.
		Lankester yet admits the application of his principle to explain the condition of some of the most barbarous races--"such as the Fuegians, the Bushmen, and even the Australians.
		They exhibit evidence of being descended from ancestors more cultivated than themselves." He even applies it to the higher races in intellectual matters, and asks: "Does the reason of the average man of civilised Europe stand out clearly as an evidence of progress when compared with that of the men of bygone ages?
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S324.htm (1318 words)

	The Piltdown Inquest - CHAPTER ELEVEN
		Lankester surmised that the skull was only 1,000 years old and that the mixture of fossils is to be accounted for by their having been carried by streams from different places into the one pit.
		Lankester and the evolutionists were attempting to destroy Sir Arthur's very religion, to which he held with the tenacity of a convert, and that is the best reason for his being the Piltdown hoaxer."
		Irritated by the attacks on spiritualism by the materialists, especially Edwin Ray Lankester, he composed the story "The Captain of the 'PoleStar,'" in which Lankester is dramatized in the character of M'Alister Ray.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/The_Piltdown_Inquest/chapters/chapter11.html (8527 words)

	PROTEOMYXA - LoveToKnow Article on PROTEOMYXA
		One is commencing to break, its way through the cyst-wall f; a, food particles.
		the former; but as this name had been usually applied to Flagel lates and even the zoospores are not always provided with flagella, Lankesters name has become more suitable, and ha~ been adopted by Delage and Hrouard (1896) and by Hartol (1906).
		The group entered to a considerable extent into thi Monera of Haeckel, supposed (erroneously in most if not all species adequately studied) to possess no nucleus in the protoplasm.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PROTEOMYXA.htm (667 words)

	People's Weekly World - Lessons in outreach from … a funeral?
		One of the mourners was the biologist Edwin Ray Lankester, who had no known working-class affiliations.
		Edwin Ray Lankester was an ardent defender of Charles Darwin and Darwin’s theories of evolution.
		An 1880 letter from Lankester to Marx reads, “I shall be very glad to see you … I have been intending to return to you the book you kindly lent to me.” Marx loved to meet and discuss ideas with young people.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/5624/1/227 (749 words)

	GC - Abbreviations 3
		John Martyn's annotations and/or underlining of Ray's text in his inter-leaved copy of Ray,1660.The annotations are undated, except for one in July 1 1730, but are probably mostly before Martyn's Flora, 1727.
		Ray's page number is followed by the page number (in brackets) in Ewen & Prime's English text.
		The Correspondence of John Ray, edited by Edwin Lankester, Ray Society, London, 1848, pp.44,45,60.
	www.mnlg.com /gc/abbr_3.html (6307 words)

	C3defs
		Lankester and most modern zoologists utilize the coelom in classification.
		That group or subgrade of Enterozoa or Metazoa which is characterized by the presence of a coelom in a distinct middle or mesodermal cell-layer.
		On the periphery of the circle are arranged the seven saturated colours of Newton, and also purple; at the centre is white; the mixed colours lie upon the surface of the disk.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Baldwin/Dictionary/defs/C3defs.htm (9150 words)

	The Piltdown Man, a notorious anthropological hoax - The Crime library
		In fact, Lankester was known to have exposed a good friend of Doyle's, Henry Slade, who headed the spiritualist movement and was believed to have been able to conjure up the spirits of the dead.
		Although Winslow and Meyer made some intriguing statements concerning Doyle's alleged involvement in the Piltdown hoax, their theory has been widely refuted by many who believe that it is implausible and based primarily on speculative assumptions.
		Moreover, he suggested that Winslow and Meyer's version of the relationship between Doyle and Lankester, "must have been fundamentally in error" because much of the evidence based on letters supports the contention that the two men greatly admired one another and held little if any animosity towards each other.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/scams/piltdown_man/5.html (1116 words)

	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels about occultism
		One of them, Ray Lankester (1847-1929), had American medium Slade, whom Olcott and H.P.B. had sent to Europe in 1876, sued in court for fraud.
		Later, Lankester was one of the speakers at Marx' burial.
		H.P.B. referred to this Lankester in her "(New) York against Lankester", which appeared in the Banner of Light on 14 October, 1876.
	www.stelling.nl /simpos/marxthh.htm (1385 words)

	Bloodworm Showers? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He took samples and found the creatures to be worms with transparent bodies, red-hued by virtue of their visible blood-vessels (Gosse, p.
		In his Secrets of Earth and Sea, Sir Ray Lankester (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920), explains "showers of blood" as being due to showers of red insects.
		The mechanism for these showers proposed by Lankester is the ubiquitous whirlwind that lifts the worms out of the water and drops them elsewhere (p.
	www.strangemag.com /bloodwormshowers.html (154 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (Zoology, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Sir Edwin Ray Lankester[lang´kustur] Pronunciation Key, 1847–1929, English zoologist.
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lankeste.html (187 words)

	David Y. Hughes- Desperately Mortal
		Thus Lankester, a bachelor, in this piece of mainline Victorian pleading, exonerated Wells via the virgin/harlot version of racial purity.
		By the same token, though, to those unfriendly to Wells, he would be the cheeky "little cad" in the Fabian Nursery: the one who robbed the bank.
		These form a sort of chorus to the action (of writing, lecturing, running for office, and so on), with the effect for the reader that Wells's life, so absorbed in these enterprises, appears indissolubly part of his work, which was always the prime mover: his work or his art.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/hughes43.htm (2877 words)

	Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY [Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray], 1847-1929, English zoologist.
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	MICROSCOPY UK / MICSCAPE - BOOK REVIEWS
		Few however will be much aware of the man who wrote it in 1859 during his term of office as the President of the Microscopical Society of London.
		He was a prolific writer and lecturer who appealed both to specialist professional groups as well as lay audiences and through his communications as well as his indefatigable actions had an enormous impact on Victorian Society which laid the foundations for many of the improvements and advantages we enjoy today.
		Sadly Victorian Society failed to give him the financial reward nor the professional preferrment his talents and endeavours merited and it is only today that we begin to recognise his real stature and his son, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester is better known than he.
	www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/articles/bookr10.html (387 words)

	Sherlock Holmes, Circumstantial Evidence and Piltdown Man
		Certainly they convince one that, prior to 1912, Doyle was committed to spiritualism and was aware of the fact that Lankester had been instrumental in unmasking the spiritualistic charlatan Slade.
		Moreover, in another extract from what appears to be the same letter (quoted in the 1959 Doyle Centenary volume) Lankester described Doyle's presentation of "the lost mountain top world" as "perfectly splendid." It would seem then that, circa 1912, Doyle and Lankester constituted a regular little mutual admiration society.
		The identification of Challenger with Lankester can count as evidence for Doyle's aliened antipathy to Lankester only inasmuch as that identification can be unambiguously made.
	www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_prim_suspects/DOYLE/Doyle_defense/sherlock_pilt.html (1809 words)

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