William Plane Pycraft

William Plane Pycraft ALS
Born	1868
Died	1942
Residence	British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, SW
Occupation	museum work zoologist osteologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1942 deceased elected_AI 1907.11.08

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Office Notes

RAI Council 1919 Member
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member

House Notes

1907.10.22 proposed by T.A. Joyce, seconded by J. Gray
1933.01.24 A letter of resignation from Mr Pycraft was read. It was resolved to remit Mr Pycraft’s subscription in accordance with Article 22

Notes From Elsewhere

William Plane Pycraft (13 January 1868 – 1 May 1942) was an English osteologist and zoologist.[1][2]
Pycraft was born on 13 January 1868 in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk the elder son of William John Pycraft and Margaret Fiddes Pycraft (née Blake). His father was in the Merchant Navy and drowned at Llanelli on 14 August 1868 when William was only 8 months old. His mother remarried Clement Watson, a Butcher on 14 January 1872 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In 1891 Pycraft was a Museum Assistant to Montague Browne, the Curator of the Town Museum in Leicester. In 1892 Pycraft became assistant to Edwin Ray Lankester, and in 1898 moved with Lankester to the staff of the Natural History Museum. He married Lucy Agnes Shee, daughter of Jeremiah Dunlay Shee in 1899 in Chelsea. In 1907 Pycraft took charge of osteology at the museum.
Pycraft wrote many articles and books on natural history, including The Story of Bird-Life (1900), The Story of Fish-Life (1901), The Story of Reptile Life (1905), The British Museum of Natural History (1910), A History of Birds (1910), The Infancy of Animals (1912), The Courtship of Animals (1913), Birds in Flight (1922), Camouflage in Nature (1925) and Birds of Great Britain and their Natural History (1934).

Publications

External Publications

Bird Life, 1899
Birds in Flight, 1922
A book of birds, 1908
The courtship of animals, 1913
A history of birds, 1910
The story of fish life, 1901
The story of reptile life, 1905
The Story of Bird-Life (1900)
The British Museum of Natural History (1910)
The Infancy of Animals (1912)
Camouflage in Nature (1925)
Birds of Great Britain and their Natural History (1934).