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DR. FREDERIC A. LUCAS has been appointed to succeed Dr. H. C. Bumpus as director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and will take office on June 15. The new director, who is now in his sixtieth year, has been chief curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences since 1904. He had previously served for twenty-two years in various posts in the U.S. National Museum at Washington. As an author he is best known for his books and papers on palæontology and comparative anatomy, as well as on museum methods.
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Notes . Nature 86, 420–425 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086420a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/086420a0
