Frederic Augustus Lucas, Sc.D. (March 25, 1852 – February 9, 1929) was a zoologist and an American museum director. Among his major contributions were those in avian anatomy.Frederic A. Lucas was prominent in the Great American Museum movement[clarification needed], which sought to bring Natural Science to the American public. He eventually became Curator in Chief of the Brooklyn Museum, in Brooklyn, NY (1904), and subsequently enjoyed an appointment as director at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (1911). Less