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Joseph Barnard Davis

1801–81

Craniologist. Collected a vast number of skulls and skeletons of various races, eventually purchased by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1880. Graduated MD at St Andrews, 1862, and practised medicine until his death.

Source

DNB.

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.

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