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HUNT, James (1833-1869)

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Born: 1833

Died: 1869

Editorial Description

ethnologist and writer on stammering; hon sec ETHNOL SOC, 1859-62; founder and first pres London Anthrop Soc, 1863-7; ed ANTHROP REV, 1858, and Vogt's Lectures on Man; obtained recognition of anthropology as a separate section at Br Assn; defended slavery in a paper on 'The Negro's Place in Nature' at the Br Assn meeting of 1863. (DBN)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

567.1 — 567.1 "On the Localization of the Functions of the Brain, with Special Reference to the faculty of Language," ANTHROP REV, 6 (1868): 329-45, and 7 (1869): 100-16, 201-14.

Editorial Information

Identifier	567.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	180
Printed page	175
Database ID	1658

Original Transcription

567. HUNT, James (1833-69), ethnologist and writer on stammering;
hon sec ETHNOL SOC, 1859-62; founder and first pres London
Anthrop Soc, 1863-7; ed ANTHROP REV, 1858, and Vogt's Lectures
on Man; obtained recognition of anthropology as a separate section at
Br Assn; defended slavery in a paper on 'The Negro's Place in Nature'
at the Br Assn meeting of 1863. (DBN)