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James Cowles Prichard
MD, FRS
Prichard, James Cowles.jpg
Born 1786
Died 1849
Occupation medical
Society Membership
membership ESL Ordinary Fellow
left 1849 dead
elected_ESL 1844.02.01
societies Institute of France
Royal Society



Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1845-46 Vice President
ESL Council 1846-47 President
ESL Council 1847-48 President
ESL Council 1848-49 President [died Dec. 1848]

House Notes

Corresponding member of the Institute of France
Death announced 18 Jan 1849

1856.05.28 Mrs Prichard, the widow of Dr Prichard, has presented a companion lithograph also handsomely framed and glazed, of her deceased husband, who died President of the Society. This also adorns the library [STILL HAVE THIS]

Notes From Elsewhere

James Cowles Prichard, MD, FRS (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was an English physician and ethnologist. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. He was also the first person to name senile dementia

Publications

External Publications

In 1813 he published his Researches into the Physical History of Man, in 2 vols, on essentially the same themes as his dissertation in 1808. The book grew until the 3rd ed of 1836-47 occupied five volumes; second-4th ed. published under title: Researches into the Physical History of Mankind. The 4th edition was also in 5 volumes

House Publications

On the relations of ethnology to other branches of knowledge delivered at the anniversary meeting 22 jun. 1847

Related Material Details

RAI Material

Other Material

Bristol U., Wellcome, RGS [papers &c.]