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Lazarus Fletcher

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Sir Lazarus Fletcher (3 March 1854 – 6 January 1921) was a British geologist.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1912. Fletcher was knighted in 1916.[2][3]

Fletcher was Keeper of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum from 1880 to 1909, and director from 1909 to 1919.[4]

References

  1. ^ "FLETCHER, Lazarus". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 612.
  2. ^ "obit. Sir Lazarus Fletcher, F.R.S." Nature. 106 (2672): 636–637. 13 January 1921. doi:10.1038/106636a0.
  3. ^ "No. 29483". The London Gazette. 22 February 1916. pp. 1946–1947.
  4. ^ Miers, Henry. "Biographical Notice of Sir Lazarus Fletcher" (PDF). Retrieved 3 March 2017.

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