| Reference number | EC/1929/10 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIV, 73; A04153 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Lang, William Dickson: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse. Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for his knowledge of palaeontology; has applied evolutionary principles to the systematic arrangement of fossil polyzoa and corals, studying the recapitulation of ancestral characters in the post-embryonic growth-stages of compound as well as simple organisms, eg, 'Brit Mus Catalogue Fossil Bryozoa' (1921, 1922), 'The Pelmatoporinae' (Phil Trans, 1919). Has elucidated in detail the faunal and stratigraphical succession in the Lias and Gault of the Dorset coast, with special relation to cephalopod evolution. By extending the study of existing British species of mosquitoes to their four larval stages, previously ill-known, he tested the relationships already inferred from imaginal characters. |
| Proposers | Arthur Smith Woodward; J W Gregory; S F Harmer; W T Calman; John E Marr; W W Watts; E W MacBride |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1666 | Lang; William Dickson (1878 - 1966) | 1878 - 1966 |