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ROSS, John (1777-1856)

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Born: 1777

Died: 1856

Title: Sir

Editorial Description

Rear-admiral; arctic navigator; sought North-West passage, 1818 and 1829-33; disgraced himself by identifying fallacious "Crocker Mountains," leading to disputes with William Parry and Sir Edward Sabine; published on nautical subjects; friend of Sir Joseph Banks and other savants; M. Geographical Soc; VP Meteorol Soc, 1839-40; met GALL and SPURZHEIM on the continent in the 1800s; joined EDIN PHREN SOC, 1823; friend of G. MACKENZIE who translated a German account of Ross's 1818 expedition. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

977.1 — 977.1 "On Decimal Notation of the Organs," PHREN J, 1 (1823/4): 600-2. (With note from editors stating that they do not fully agree with the author.) Naval Discipline; with an Explanation of the Important Advantages Which Naval and Military Discipline Might Derive from the Science of Phrenology. To which are added Phrenological Deductions from the Cerebral Development of Joseph] H[ume], Esq. London: printed for the author and sold by Longman & Co, 1825. Pp. 39. (Reviewed PHREN J, 2 [1824/5]: 468-83.)
977.2 — 977.2 *A Treatise on

Editorial Information

Identifier	977.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	289
Printed page	284
Database ID	2730

Original Transcription

977. ROSS, Sir John (1777-1856), Rear-admiral; arctic navigator;
sought North-West passage, 1818 and 1829-33; disgraced himself by
identifying fallacious "Crocker Mountains," leading to disputes with
William Parry and Sir Edward Sabine; published on nautical subjects;
friend of Sir Joseph Banks and other savants; M. Geographical Soc;
VP Meteorol Soc, 1839-40; met GALL and SPURZHEIM on the continent
in the 1800s; joined EDIN PHREN SOC, 1823; friend of G. MACKENZIE
who translated a German account of Ross's 1818 expedition. (DNB)