LANKESTER, SIR EDWIN RAY

£1847), Brit. zoologist; prof. at London, 1374-90 and Oxford 1891-8; director of natural history section of Brit. Museum, 1898-1906; president Brit. A ociation, 1906; works include Extinct Animals, 1905; Kingdom of Man, 1907: Science from an Easy Chair, 1910, 1912, Diversions of a Naturalist, 1915; Secrets of Harth and Sea, 1920. (1850), an orientalist, 6. at Norwich, Conn., son of Peter and Catherine Cook Lanman. He was educated at Yale University, was a graduate student of Greek under Hadley and Sanskrit under Whitney and also studied in Berlin, Tubingen and Leipzig. He taught Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins from 1876-80 after which he was profe or of Sanskrit at Harvard for which institution he ‘acquired valuable books and manuscripts (Sanskrit and Pratkrit) while traveling in India in 1889. He also ‘devoted much time to the organized work of promoting oriental and linguistic studies in America, edited many books ‘and was the author of Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism, and others.