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BUSK, George (1807-1886)

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Born: 1807

Died: 1886

Editorial Description

med and scientific writer; student St. Thomas's and St. Bartholomew's hospitals before becoming a naval surgeon; settled in London in 1855 and became a distinguished office holder in the Roy Coll Surg, the Roy Soc, and the Geological Soc, and became the pres of the Anthrop Inst, 1873; published over scientific papers. (DNB) a t

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

178.1 — 178.1 "Observations on a Systematic Mode of Craniometry," Trans Ethnol Soc Lon, 1 NS (1861): 341-8.

Editorial Information

Identifier	178.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	50
Printed page	45
Database ID	437

Original Transcription

178. BUSK, George (1807-1886), med and scientific writer; student
St. Thomas's and St. Bartholomew's hospitals before becoming a
naval surgeon; settled in London in 1855 and became a distinguished
office holder in the Roy Coll Surg, the Roy Soc, and the Geological
Soc, and became the pres of the Anthrop Inst, 1873; published over
scientific papers. (DNB)
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