Editing David Lack (section)

==Awards and honours==
*1951: elected [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1951|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951]]<ref name="thorpe"/>
*1958: receives [[Godman-Salvin Medal]] of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]]
*1962–1966: President, [[International Ornithological Congress]]
*1964–1965: President, [[British Ecological Society]]
*1972: Awarded the [[Darwin Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]]<ref>Anderson (2013):229.</ref>

The centenary of Lack's birth, 16 July 2010, was marked by a 'David Lack Centenary Symposium', hosted by the [[Edward Grey Institute]].  A programme of talks focused on and celebrated the scientific contributions of Lack to ornithology, and the broader fields of ecology and evolution, and assessed the development of these fields in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi/newsevents/2010conferences.html |title=The David Lack Centenary Symposium |publisher=The Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology |access-date=5 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830231006/http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi/newsevents/2010conferences.html |archive-date=30 August 2010 }}</ref>