Daniel Wilson
Daniel Wilson
| Prof. Daniel Wilson | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1816 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1892 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Toronto | ||||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
Principal of University College, Toronto
1884.12.09 proposed as Hon. Member
death noted in Report of Council for 1892
Notes From Elsewhere
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
Publications
External Publications
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