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Lecture Notes (1852-1853) Catalogue of Human Crania (Annotated)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1-2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1852-77

Catalogue -- Shelf list, 1896

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1896

Catalogue of Morton Skull Collection

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1852-77

Tabulae Craniologicae

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1852-77

Notes and Papers

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1852-77

James Aitkin Meigs, Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0389
Scope and Contents Physician, physiologist, ethnologist and teacher, Meigs was associated with the Jefferson Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences. His interest in craniography resulted in his compilation of a 'Catalogue of Human Crania, in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1857." He became a member of the Academy in 1852, was elected to the Standing Committee on Ethnology in 1854, becoming its chairman three years later, which...
Dates: 1852-77