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Frederic Augustus Lucas was born on March 25, 1852 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Augustus Henry, a merchant seaman, and Eliza (Oliver) Lucas. The first eighteen years of his life were spent in his native town. As a boy he was only second-rate at the ordinary boyish sports but that he did possess a more than average mechanical ability and skill at handling tools.
Lucas received a common-school education and where his inherent fondness for natural history was given opportunity for expression.
Lucas accompanied his father, who was a captain of a sailing vessel, on two long voyages and became fascinated with sea life, especially the marine birds. From this he got a strong desire to become a taxidermist and collector of birds, and through Prof. J. W. P. Jenks of Pierce Academy, at Middleboro, Massachusetts, a taxidermist of considerable ability, he became acquainted with the museum of that institution.
Soon he secured a position in the Natural Science Establishment of Prof. Henry A. Ward at Rochester, New York, and for eleven years, 1871 to 1882, he was a member of that famous organization. There he had as laboratory associates men who were later to become leaders in various branches of natural-history work. There also he had ample opportunity for the development of his mechanical ability along many lines, although he specialized in the preparation and mounting of skeletons. In this work he developed such a high technique that in 1882 he was called to the United States National Museum in Washington as osteologist.
Under the influence of Dr. George Brown Goode he developed so rapidly and so broadly that in 1902 he was simultaneously curator of comparative anatomy, acting curator of fossil vertebrates, in charge of biological exhibits, and in charge of the children's room. In 1904 he was called to Brooklyn as curator-in-chief of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Here he found a museum in a somewhat chaotic state, with the exhibits unbalanced and a general lack of coordination. He gave his attention particularly to the natural-history department, and when he resigned the mark of his genius was left in the exhibition halls. His idea of a natural-history museum was that it should not be merely a collection of curious objects from various parts of the world but a teaching institution with the specimens cautiously selected, carefully installed, and instructively labeled. This idea he carried out first in the National Museum, then in Brooklyn, and finally in the great American Museum of Natural History in New York, to which he was called as director in 1911 and where he remained until his death.
As a field naturalist, he was given but few opportunities. There are only three major expeditions to his credit, but each one was carried out successfully. The first was to Funk Island for remains of the Great Auk, the second to the Pribilof Islands as a member of the Fur Seal Commission, and the last to a whaling station in Newfoundland for the great sulphur-bottom whale.
Lucas's influence on the development of museums in America was great and lasting. His published writings, both technical and popular, comprise some 365, and the wide range of subjects covered indicates the breadth of his interest and activities. Probably his best-known works are two small volumes, Animals of the Past (1901) and Animals before Man in America (1902), and the articles contributed to Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia.
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On February 13, 1884, Lucas married Annie J. Edgar, by whom he had two daughters.
