Frederic Augustus Lucas

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Frederic Augustus Lucas, Sc.D. (1852–1929) was an American museum director, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

He was an assistant in Ward's Natural Science Establishment from 1871-1882, and was employed at the United States National Museum afterwards, being curator there from 1893 to 1904. From 1904 to 1911, he was curator in chief of the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; afterward he served as director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

He wrote many papers on the anatomy of birds; on fossil vertebrates; and on museum methods; and published treatises on Animals of the Past (1901) and Animals before Man in North America (1902).

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