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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]

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

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.

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