John Goodsir
1814–67
Scottish surgeon and anatomist. Surgeon in Anstruther, Fifeshire, 1835–40. Conservator, museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1841–3. Conservator, human and comparative anatomy, Edinburgh University museum, 1840; curator, anatomy and pathology museum, 1843; demonstrator in anatomy, 1844; professor of anatomy, 1846. FRS 1846.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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