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{{Short description|British zoologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Sir E. Ray Lankester | image = PSM V73 D096 Edwin Ray Lankester.jpg | image_size = 210px | caption = Sir E. Ray Lankester in 1908 | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|5|15|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1929|8|13|1847|5|15|df=y}} | death_place = London, England | field = [[Zoology]] | work_institutions = [[University College London]]<br />[[Oxford University]]<br />[[British Museum (Natural History)]] | alma_mater = [[Downing College, Cambridge]]<br />[[Christ Church, Oxford]] | known_for = Evolution, [[Rationalism]] | author_abbrev_bot = Lank. | author_abbrev_zoo = | prizes = {{no wrap|[[Knight Bachelor]] {{small|(1906)}}<br />[[Darwin-Wallace Medal]] {{small|(Silver, 1908)}}<br />[[Copley Medal]] {{small|(1913)}}<br />[[Linnean Medal]] {{small|(1920)}}}} | footnotes = | signature = }} '''Sir Edwin Ray Lankester''' {{post-nominals|GBR|KCB|FRS}} (15 May 1847 β 13 August 1929) was a British [[zoologist]].<ref name="NIE">New International Encyclopaedia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Osborn, Henry Fairfield|author-link=Henry Fairfield Osborne|title=Obituary: Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S.|journal=Nature|date=31 August 1929|pages=345β346|volume=124|issue=3122|doi=10.1038/124345a0|bibcode=1929Natur.124..345O|doi-access=free}}</ref> An [[invertebrate]] zoologist and [[evolutionary biologist]], he held chairs at [[University College London]] and [[Oxford University]]. He was the third Director of the [[Natural History Museum, London]], and was awarded the [[Copley Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]].<ref name=ESG>{{cite journal|author=Goodrich, Edwin S.|author-link=Edwin Stephen Goodrich|title=The Scientific Work of Edwin Ray Lankester|journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science|year=1931|volume=s2-74|issue=295|pages=363β382|url=http://jcs.biologists.org/content/s2-74/295/363.full.pdf}}</ref>
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