William Plane Pycraft
William Plane Pycraft (13 January 1868 – 1 May 1942) was an
Pycraft was born on 13 January 1868 in
Edwin Ray Lankester, and in 1898 moved with Lankester to the staff of the Natural History Museum. He married Lucy Agnes Shee, daughter of Jeremiah Dunlay Shee in 1899 in Chelsea. In 1907 Pycraft took charge of osteology
at the museum.
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Pycraft wrote many articles and books on natural history, including The Story of Bird-Life (1900), The Story of Fish-Life (1901), The Story of Reptile Life (1905), The British Museum of Natural History (1910), A History of Birds (1910), The Infancy of Animals (1912), The Courtship of Animals (1913), Birds in Flight (1922), Camouflage in Nature (1925) and Birds of Great Britain and their Natural History (1934).
See also
References
- ^ Thomson, Keith (1991) Piltdown Man: The Great English Mystery Story. Clark University.
- doi:10.1038/149575a0.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-434-73600-7.
External links
- Works by William Plane Pycraft online at BHL
- Works by W. P. Pycraft at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Plane Pycraft at Internet Archive
Works by or about William Plane Pycraft at Wikisource
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