Portion of a ripe ovary of Sepia (cuttlefish) showing ova of various sizes and some empty capsules c, c. From Contributions to the developmental history of the Mollusca.
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester in 1918
The Lost World (Doyle novel)
Videos
The Lost World is an adventure and science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting an expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where dinosaurs and
Ray Lankester
…Karl Marx. (Lankester was one of the thirteen people at Marx's funeral.) He has also been suggested as the model for Professor Challenger in Doyle's The Lost World, but Doyle himself said that Challenger was based on a professor of physiology at the University of Edinburgh named William Rutherford. Lankester never…
Cover of the first edition of The Lost World
Frontispiece photo from the 1912 edition of The Lost World, showing the fictional members of the expedition, left to right: E. D. Malone; Professor Summerlee; Professor G. E. Challenger; Lord John Roxton (Challenger was impersonated by Conan Doyle himself)
Maple White's sketch of a living Stegosaurus
View of the plateau that isolates the lost world