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DAVIS, Joseph Barnard (1801-1881)

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Born: 1801

Died: 1881

Editorial Description

craniologist; MRCS 1843, MD St Andrews 1862; FRS, 1868; early member of the Anthrop Inst; surgeon on an Arctic whaler, 1820; author of A Popular Manual of the Art of Preserving Health (1836) which discussed the temperaments non-phrenologically; possessed an unrivaled collection of craniums at his residence in Staffordshire and which was purchased by the Roy Coll Surg in 1880. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

288.1 — 288.1 [with John THURNAM], Crania Britannica. Delineations and Descriptions of the Skulls of the Early Inhabitants of the British Islands; together with Notices of their Other Remains. London: printed for the subscribers, 1865. (2 vols in 1)

Editorial Information

Identifier	288.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	100
Printed page	95
Database ID	931

Original Transcription

288. DAVIS, Joseph Barnard (1801-81), craniologist; MRCS 1843,
MD St Andrews 1862; FRS, 1868; early member of the Anthrop Inst;
surgeon on an Arctic whaler, 1820; author of A Popular Manual of
the Art of Preserving Health (1836) which discussed the temperaments non-phrenologically; possessed an unrivaled collection of
craniums at his residence in Staffordshire and which was purchased
by the Roy Coll Surg in 1880. (DNB)