Robert Gordon Latham

Prof. Robert Gordon Latham MD, FRS
Born	1812
Died	1888
Residence	Athenaeum
Occupation	academic medical ethnologist philologist
Society Membership membership ESL ordinary fellow ESL, AI Hon. Fellow 1860.11.27 left 1853.12.21 resigns elected_ESL 1844.12.07 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

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Office Notes

ESL Council 1845-46 Member
ESL Council 1846-47 Member
ESL Council 1847-48 Member
ESL Council 1848-49 Member
ESL Council 1849-50 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1850-51 Vice President [resigns Oct. 1850]

House Notes

Committee to consider future of Society Apr 1849; recommended as Secretary Jun 1849; Committee to consider means of improving prospects of Society Mar 1850

Notes From Elsewhere

Robert Gordon Latham FRS (24 March 1812 – 9 March 1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist.

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1851

Publications

House Publications

On the language of the Oregon Territory. read 11 dec. 1844
On the Ethnography of Russian America READ 19 Feb 1845
supplement [to daniell's paper] upon the philological ethnography of the countries around the Bight of Biafra 28 jan. 1846
On the Caucasian tribes. Read 12 Apr 1848
Abstract of the transactions of the ethnological subsection of the meeting of the BA at Swansea. Read 22 Nov. 1848
The principle of classification of groups of languages, with particular reference to certain supposed additions to the Indo-European tribes of languages. Read 20 Dec. 1848. Printed
On the route of the population of Polynesia. Read Nov. 1849
On certain peculiarities of the Mexican method of numeration. AND On certain recent additions to the philosophical ethnography of New Caledonia, Oregon, and California. Read Dec. 1849
On the relation of the Mexican civilization to that of the other populations of America. Read Mar 1850
On the minute ethnology of Europe
On the pagan population of the Indian archipelago