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Frederic Lucas
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. He was an expert on the osteology and anatomy of birds. He wrote several popular book on extinct animals. Biography Lucas was the son of Eliza Oliver and Augustus Henry, a Merchant Navy, merchant seaman and captain of a sailing ship, sailing vessel, whose grandmother Ruby Fuller was a descendant of Dr Samuel Fuller of the Mayflower. He accompanied his father on two long voyages, the first (1861-1862) at the age of nine and the second (1869-1870) when he was 17. He became fascinated with sea life, especially the marine birds, many of which he was able to snare, skin and prepare as mounted specimens. From this he developed an ambition to become a taxidermist and entered Ward's Natural Science Establishment at Rochester, New York, to learn the techniques involved. He did not have a formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F A Lucas 1918
F, or f, is the sixth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet and many modern alphabets influenced by it, including the English alphabet, modern English alphabet and the alphabets of all other modern western European languages. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ef'' (pronounced ), and the plural is ''efs''. History The origin of ⟨F⟩ is the History of the alphabet#Semitic alphabet, Semitic letter ''Waw (letter), waw'', which represented a sound like or . It probably originally depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z#M, that which represented the word ''mace'' (transliterated as ḥ(dj)): T3 The Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, ''upsilon'' (which resembled its descendant ⟨Y⟩ but was also the ancestor of the Roman letters ⟨U⟩, ⟨V⟩, and ⟨W⟩); and, with another form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White. The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and merged with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1843. The museum was conceived as an institution focused on a broad public. The Brooklyn Museum's current building dates to 1897 and has been expanded several times since then. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, but it was revitalized in the late 20th century following major renovations. Significant areas of the collection includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USFC Grampus
USFC ''Grampus'' was a Fishery, 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. She was a schooner of revolutionary design in terms of speed and safety and influenced the construction of later commercial fishing schooners. ''Grampus''′s home ports were Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Woods Hole and Gloucester, Massachusetts, Gloucester, Massachusetts. During her 31-year career, ''Grampus'' made significant contributions to the understanding of the mackerel fishery off the United States East Coast, Canada, and the British colony of Dominion of Newfoundland, Newfoundland. She also investigated the tilefish population, conducted fishery investigations in the Gulf of Mexico, and contributed to fish culture work in New England to propagate the mackerel, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
