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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Neil Gordon
| name = Munro
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MB MD
| image = File:Munro,_Neil_Gordon.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1942
| address = 91 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan<br />147 Bluff, Yokohama [1921]<br />c/o Asiatic Society, German Club, Hirakawa-cho, Koji-machi, Tokyo, Japan [1935]<br />c/o Nibutani, Saru Gun, Hidaka, Hokkaido, Japan [1937]
| occupation = medical<br />anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1908.11.10
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary Fellow<br />Local Correspondent 1906 and 21 Apr. 1936 (Japan)
| left = 1925 last listed as ordinary fellow
| clubs =
| societies = Asiatic Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1908.11.10 proposed by F.C. Shrubsall, seconded by E.N. Fallaize<br />1930.05.27 It was resolved to appoint Dr N.G. Munro Local Correspondent for Japan<br />1930.06.24 It was resolved to support an application to the Rockefeller Trustees for a grant in aid to Dr Gordon Munro in recognition of his work in Japan.<br />1936.04.21 The following were appointed Local Correspondents for vacant areas. Mr A.T. Culwick and Mr H.A. Fosbrooke for Tanganyika, Mr D.F.H. MacBride for Nigeria, Mr Guy Brunton for Egypt and Sudan, Dr A.P. Elkin for Australia, Prof. A. Matsamura and Dr Munro for Japan, Mr J. Eric Thompson for Central America, Prof. Buck for Honolulu, Mr H.D. Noone for East Indies, Dr W.R. Morse for Western China and Prof. Bernardo Eduard Petri for Russia.<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Neil Gordon Munro (1863 – 1942) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist. Resident in Japan for almost fifty years, he was notable as one of the first Westerners to study the Ainu people of Hokkaido.<br /><br />Educated in the University of Edinburgh Medical School M.B., C.M. 1888 and M.D. 1909, he traveled in India before settling in Yokohama as director of Yokohama Juzen Hospital which is one of the largest western-style hospitals in Asia in 1893. From 1930 until his death he lived among the Ainu in Nibutani village in Hokkaido. Film footage he took of the local people survives.<br /><br />Between 1908 and 1914 he sent more than 2,000 objects to the Royal Scottish Museum (today's National Museum of Scotland) in Edinburgh. He authored several volumes, among them Coins of Japan (1904), Prehistoric Japan (1908), and Ainu Creed and Cult (with H Watanabe & BZ Seligman, 1962).
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Coins of Japan
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Munro collection
=== Other Material ===
Hokkaido Museum, History Museum Tokyo, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
| first_name = Neil Gordon
| name = Munro
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MB MD
| image = File:Munro,_Neil_Gordon.jpg
| birth_date = 1863
| death_date = 1942
| address = 91 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan<br />147 Bluff, Yokohama [1921]<br />c/o Asiatic Society, German Club, Hirakawa-cho, Koji-machi, Tokyo, Japan [1935]<br />c/o Nibutani, Saru Gun, Hidaka, Hokkaido, Japan [1937]
| occupation = medical<br />anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1908.11.10
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Ordinary Fellow<br />Local Correspondent 1906 and 21 Apr. 1936 (Japan)
| left = 1925 last listed as ordinary fellow
| clubs =
| societies = Asiatic Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
1908.11.10 proposed by F.C. Shrubsall, seconded by E.N. Fallaize<br />1930.05.27 It was resolved to appoint Dr N.G. Munro Local Correspondent for Japan<br />1930.06.24 It was resolved to support an application to the Rockefeller Trustees for a grant in aid to Dr Gordon Munro in recognition of his work in Japan.<br />1936.04.21 The following were appointed Local Correspondents for vacant areas. Mr A.T. Culwick and Mr H.A. Fosbrooke for Tanganyika, Mr D.F.H. MacBride for Nigeria, Mr Guy Brunton for Egypt and Sudan, Dr A.P. Elkin for Australia, Prof. A. Matsamura and Dr Munro for Japan, Mr J. Eric Thompson for Central America, Prof. Buck for Honolulu, Mr H.D. Noone for East Indies, Dr W.R. Morse for Western China and Prof. Bernardo Eduard Petri for Russia.<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Neil Gordon Munro (1863 – 1942) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist. Resident in Japan for almost fifty years, he was notable as one of the first Westerners to study the Ainu people of Hokkaido.<br /><br />Educated in the University of Edinburgh Medical School M.B., C.M. 1888 and M.D. 1909, he traveled in India before settling in Yokohama as director of Yokohama Juzen Hospital which is one of the largest western-style hospitals in Asia in 1893. From 1930 until his death he lived among the Ainu in Nibutani village in Hokkaido. Film footage he took of the local people survives.<br /><br />Between 1908 and 1914 he sent more than 2,000 objects to the Royal Scottish Museum (today's National Museum of Scotland) in Edinburgh. He authored several volumes, among them Coins of Japan (1904), Prehistoric Japan (1908), and Ainu Creed and Cult (with H Watanabe & BZ Seligman, 1962).
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Coins of Japan
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Munro collection
=== Other Material ===
Hokkaido Museum, History Museum Tokyo, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh