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| membership = ordinary fellowAI<br />possible Corresponding Member of ESL see note*, AI| left = 1916 deceased
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal Society<br />British Association<br />Anatomical Society<br />Royal Society of Edinburgh<br />Royal College of Surgeons<br />British Association
AI Council 1891 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member
=== House Notes ===
Professor of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh<br />proposed 29 October 1889<br />portrait and obit. in Man 1916 by A. Keith<br /><br />*But was he also a Corresponding Member before this? See Prof. Turner of the American Ethnogical Society - the lists could refer to this Prof. Turner since in the List for 1872 under Corresponding Members is Prof. Turner FRSE Edinburgh.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir William Turner (7 January 1832 in Lancaster – 15 February 1916 in Edinburgh) was a British anatomist and was the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1903 to 1916.<br /><br />Born Lancaster; died Edinburgh. Virtually whole career from 1854 at Edinburgh University; Professor of Anatomy from 1867-1903, Principal from 1903-16 Knighted 1886; KCB 1901. Honorary degrees from Glasgow, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Montreal, Western University, Pennsylvania, Oxford, Durham, Toronto, Dublin and Cambridge Interested in classification & evolutionary genealogy of human races.<br />
