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Darwin Correspondence Project

Anthony Carlisle

1768–1840

Surgeon and anatomist. Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, 1793–1840. Professor of anatomy at the Royal Academy, 1808–24. Vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons four times, and president in 1828 and 1837. FRS 1804.

Sources

DNB

DSB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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.

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