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'''Paul Topinard'''
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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1878.06.11<br />Conservateur des Collections de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris<br />death noted in the report of the council for 1911: In Dr. Paul Topinard France has lost one of her most eminent physical anthropologists, and the Institute one of its most distinguished Honorary Fellows. The influence of Broca induced him to devote his attention to anthropology, and by his death that science loses one of its foremost pioneers. An obituary notice will be found in Man, 1912, 19. <br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Paul Topinard (L'Isle-Adam, 1830, Parmain, Val-d'Oise - 1911)[1][2] was a French physician and anthropologist who was a student of Paul Broca and whose views influenced the methodology adopted by Herbert Hope Risley in his ethnographic surveys of the people of India.[3] He became director of the École d'Anthropologie and secretary-general of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, both in succession to Broca<br />
