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PATERSON, George Murray

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Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

MRCS; attracted to phrenology after hearing the lectures of M. ALLEN just before setting off for India in 1821; hon surgeon to the East India Co, Bengal; M Asiatic Soc, Calcutta; M EDIN PHREN SOC from Mar 1824; founded the Calcutta Phren Soc, 1825, having taken out to India 90 of DE- VILLE'S casts.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

876.1 — 876.1 MS. Memoir on the Phrenology of Hindostan. Read to the Phrenological Society, Edinburgh 1st May 1823. Written and signed by him. Pp. 53. [Edin U L: Gen 608* (iv)]
876.2 — 876.2 "On the Phrenology of Hindostan," TRANS [EDIN] PHREN SOC, [1] (1823): 430-48.
876.3 — 876.3 "Letter from Dr. Murray Paterson to a Friend in Edinburgh," PHREN J, 3 (1825/6): 101-4.

Editorial Information

Identifier	876.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	263
Printed page	258
Database ID	2479

Original Transcription

876. PATERSON, George Murray, MD, MRCS; attracted to phrenology after hearing the lectures of M. ALLEN just before setting
off for India in 1821; hon surgeon to the East India Co, Bengal; M
Asiatic Soc, Calcutta; M EDIN PHREN SOC from Mar 1824; founded
the Calcutta Phren Soc, 1825, having taken out to India 90 of DE-
VILLE'S casts.