Daniel Wilson

Prof. Daniel Wilson
Born	1816
Died	1892
Residence	Toronto
Occupation	academic
Society Membership membership ASL, AI Corresponding Member AI Hon. Fellow 1885 left 1888.06 last listed elected_AI 1863 1885.01.13 elected_ASL 1863.09.09 societies Royal Society of Canada Royal Canadian Institute Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

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Principal of University College, Toronto
1884.12.09 proposed as Hon. Member

death noted in Report of Council for 1892

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Sir Daniel Wilson (January 5, 1816 – August 6, 1892) was a Scottish-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author....was appointed Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1845.[1] He corresponded with Christian Jürgensen Thomsen and J. J. A. Worsaae

President of the Royal Society of Canada
1885–1886
President of the Royal Canadian Institute

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Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time
In 1851 he published The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland,[1] which introduced the word prehistoric into the English archaeological vocabulary
He was the author of Civilisation in the Old and the New World, and a number of other books, for example, a study on Thomas Chatterton, and Caliban, the Missing Link

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