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Frederic Augustus Lucas, the Glossary

Frederic Augustus Lucas (March 25, 1852 – February 9, 1929) was a zoologist and taxidermist who served as a curator of the Brooklyn Museum and director of the American Museum of Natural History.^[1]

42 relations: Academician, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, American Museum of Natural History, Arthur H. Howell, Bering Sea, Bird, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Carl Akeley, Charles Haskins Townsend, Clinton Hart Merriam, Curator, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, David Starr Jordan, Endangered species, Exploration, Flushing, Queens, Funk Island, Fur seal, Great auk, Grover Cleveland, Henry Baldwin Ward, Leonhard Stejneger, Manhattan, Marine life, Mayflower, Merchant navy, Microscope slide, National Museum of Natural History, Natural history, Natural science, North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, Osteology, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pribilof Islands, Rochester, New York, Sailing ship, Taxidermy, USFC Grampus, Ward's Science, Washington, D.C., William Temple Hornaday.

Academician

An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy.

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Alpheus Hyatt Verrill

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, (23 July 1871 – 14 November 1954) was an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Arthur Holmes Howell (3 May 1872 – 10 July 1940) was an American zoologist most notable for his field work on mammals and birds in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, and Texas.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Carl Akeley

Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Milwaukee Public Museum, Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History.

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Charles Haskins Townsend

Charles Haskins Townsend (September 29, 1859 – January 28, 1944) was an American zoologist and naturalist who served as the director of the New York Aquarium, from 1902 to 1937.

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Clinton Hart Merriam

Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, naturalist and physician.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.

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David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Funk Island

Funk Island is a small, barren, isolated, uninhabited island approximately northeast of Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada.

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Great auk

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Henry Baldwin Ward

Henry Baldwin Ward (4 March 1865 – 30 November 1945) was an American zoologist and parasitologist.

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Leonhard Stejneger

Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marine life

Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.

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Mayflower

Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.

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Merchant navy

A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country.

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Microscope slide

A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Natural science

Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911

The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, formally known as the Convention between the United States and Other Powers Providing for the Preservation and Protection of Fur Seals, was a treaty signed on July 7, 1911, designed to manage the commercial harvest of fur-bearing mammals (such as Northern fur seals and sea otters) in the Pribilof Islands of the Bering Sea.

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Osteology

Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practised by osteologists.

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Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plymouth (historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Pribilof Islands

The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Amiq, Ostrova Pribylova) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

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Sailing ship

A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.

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Taxidermy

Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study.

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USFC Grampus

USFC Grampus was a fisheries research ship in commission in the fleet of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, usually called the United States Fish Commission, from 1886 to 1903 and then as USFS Grampus in the fleet of its successor, the United States Bureau of Fisheries, until 1917.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Augustus_Lucas

Also known as Frederic Augustus Lucus, Frederic Lucas, Frederick Augustus Lucas.

Frederic Augustus Lucas, the Glossary

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