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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Thomas
| name = Lucas
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FZS
| image = File:Lucas,_Thomas.jpg
| birth_date = 1843
| death_date = 1917
| address = Belvedere Road, Lambeth S and 10 Hyde Park Gardens, W. [crossed out in A31/2/2 in favour of:]<br />13 Kensington Palace Gardens, W.<br />Belvedere Road, Lambeth S. and 13 Kensing Palace Gardens, W [1867]
| occupation = medical
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1864.05.17
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL ordinary fellow<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1868.02.04 resigns
| clubs =
| societies = Field Naturalists Club of Victoria<br />Zoological Society<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Royal Society<br />Royal College of Surgeons<br />British Medical Association<br />Linnean Society of New South Wales
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

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=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Thomas Pennington Lucas (13 April 1843 – 15 November 1917) was a Scottish-born Australian medical practitioner, naturalist, author, philosopher and utopianist.<br />In 1882 Thomas Lucas founded the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.[13] During his lifetime he collected a large number of butterfly and moth specimens, some of which eventually found their way into the possession of the South Australian Museum.[14]<br />Lucas was a member of various learned societies including the Linnean Society,[15] the Royal Society, the Royal College of Surgeons, and the British Medical Association in England; and the Linnean Society of New South Wales, the Royal Society of Queensland, and the Natural History Society of Queensland.[16]<br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Thomas Lucas published a number of books during his lifetime, mostly on non-fiction topics. Some however were works of fiction; they include The Curse and its Cure, comprising two novels bound and published together in 1894, The Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000 and Brisbane Rebuilt in the Year 2200.[17] These novels are believed to be the first to be published anywhere that use Brisbane as their setting.<br />
=== House Publications ===

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