Craniology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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