John Crawfurd
| John Crawfurd FRS, FRGS | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1783 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1868 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
21 Wilton Street Grosvenor Place 15 William St Lowndes Sq SW[1862] 4 Elvaston Place [A2:2] Athenaeum Club [1865] 14 Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, SW and Athenaeum Club [1867][4 Elvaston in 68] | ||||||||||||
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medical administrative diplomacy | ||||||||||||
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Office Notes
ESL Council 1860-61 President
ESL Council 1861-62 President
ESL Council 1862-63 President [retiring]
ESL Council 1863-64 Vice President
ESL Council 1864-65 Vice President
ESL Council 1865-66 President
ESL Council 1866-67 President
ESL Council 1867-68 President [died May 68]
House Notes
See 'The origin of the anthropological review' AR vol. 6, no. 23 (oct 1868): ... John Crawfurd, in the year 1858, became a Fellow of the Society, and was nominated as President on the same day ... [but according to records he joined in 1847 ...]
Publications committee Nov 60; Committee to arrange Anniversary dinner 61; Committee to draw up report of Council for 1860; sub-committee to report on Mr Clarke's portraits Mar 62; Committee to confer with Anthropological society Nov 64
27 Nov. 1860: Mr Crawfurd’s proposal was then put to the meeting, viz. That ladies be admitted as visitors – and after some discussion an amendment was moved by Prof. Pearson seconded by Mr Beale – that ladies be admitted to the meetings on all occasions specified by the Council.
12 May 1868: The death early that morning of the President, Mr John Crawfurd, having been announced, it was resolved, ‘That, on the sad intelligence of the President’s death today, the Council be adjourned to Tuesday May 19th, at 4 o’clock and that special notice be sent to the Members of the Council.’
It was unanimously agreed that the ordinary meeting should not be held this evening, out of respect for the late President.
1917 Keith Presidential address: 'a tall, vigorous, overpowering figure, a highlander from Islay, who can still speak and think in Gaelic, trained in medicine, but during his long life in the Far East turned linguist, governor and ambassador ...
Notes From Elsewhere
John Crawfurd FRS (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator and diplomat, and author. He is now best known for his work on Asian languages, his History of the Indian Archipelago, and his role in founding Singapore.
While Crawfurd produced work that was ethnological in nature over a period of half a century, the term "ethnology" had not even been coined when he began to write. Attention has been drawn to his latest work, from the 1860s, which was copious. It met much criticism at the time, and has also been scrutinised in the 21st century.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1830
Publications
External Publications
Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Ava in 1827 (1829)
Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin-China, exhibiting a view of the actual State of these Kingdoms (1830)
Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (1856)
Historian[edit]
An Historical and Descriptive Account of China (1836) was a joint work in three volumes from the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, with Hugh Murray, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett.
Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language (1852)
House Publications
ESL
1847.06 read before the ethnological section of the BA On the Malayan and Polynesian languages and races
1849.12 read On the alphabets of the Indian archipelago. Contributed on condition of being printed. July 1850 - - sent to Edinburgh for insertion in Jameson's Journal July 1850
On the alphabets of the Indian archipelago’ Contributed on condition of being printed 24 jul 1850 SEE B.J. CRAWFURD
On oriental words in the English language. Promised Sep. 1850 Awaiting decision on printing apr 1851
on the influence of climate &c on race. Read next meeting after 3 feb 1859
A paper on the conditions which favour retard, or obstruct the early civilization of man. Read at next meeting after 7 apr 1859
on the domestic animals in relation to human civilization. Read at next meeting after 12 jan 1860
on the influence of domestic animals in the progress of civilization (birds). Read after 17 oct 1860
on the Aryan theory of races. Read after 27 nov 1860
On the connections between ethnology and geography Read after oct 1861
On the numeral systems of nations as evidence of the progress of civilization Read after 4 feb 1862
On language as a test of the races of man Read 2 dec 1862
On the commixture of the races of man as affecting the progress of civilization in Africa Read 13 jan 1863
On the history of the gypsies Read 17 Feb 1863
On the commixture of races – Western Asia Read 17 mar 1863
On the so-called Celtic languages and races Read 16 jun 1863
On the commixture of the races of man as affecting the progress of civilization – Eastern Asia and the Asiatic and Polynesian Islands Read 10 nov 1863
On the commixtures of the races of man in the New World as affecting the progress of civilization Read 8 dec 1863
On the early migrations of man Read 12 apr 1864
On the supposed Stone, Bronze and Iron ages of society Read 10 may 1864
On the supposed infecundity of human hybrids Read 21 jun 1864
On cannibalism in relation to ethnology Read 22 feb 1865
On the physical and intellectual characteristics of the African or Occidental Negro Read 11 apr 1865
On the Oriental Negroes, namely Andaman Islanders, Papuans, Feejeeans &c Read 12 dec 1865
On the physical and mental characteristics of the European and Asiatic races of man Read 13 feb 1866
On the origin and history of written languages Read 27 feb 1866
On the invention and use of writing materials Read 27 mar 1866
On the invention of writing materials Read 10 apr 1866
On the utilization of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology Read 8 may 1866
On Caesar’s account of Britain and its inhabitants in reference to ethnology Read 12 jun 1866
On the migrations of cultivated fruits in relation to ethnology Read 6 nov 1866
On the ethnological results of the Arabian conquest of Spain Read 20 Nov 1866
On the history and migrations of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology: sachariferous plants Read 8 jan 1867
On the vegetable and animal food of the natives of Australia Planned to be read 12 feb 1867
On the supposed Aborigines of India as distinguished from the civilized inhabitants Read 26 mar 1867
On the classification of the races of man according to the form of the skull Read 9 apr 1867
On colour of the skin, hair and eyes as a test of the race of man Read 23 apr 1867
On the antiquity of man Read 25 jun 1867
On the history and migration of plants yielding textile materials Read 7 jan 1868
An examination of the Darwinian theory of the transmutation of species by natural selection in the struggle for life Read 21 jan 1868
On the migration of cultivated plants yielding narcotics, in reference to ethnology Read 25 feb 1868
On the Malayan race of man and its prehistoric career Read 24 mar 1868
On the migration and history of coffee, tea, cocoa &c Read 12 may 1868
On the supposed Aborigines of India as distinguished from the civilized inhabitants
