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...