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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Robert Gordon
| name = Latham
| honorific_prefix = Prof.
| honorific_suffix = MD, FRS
| image = File:Latham,_Robert_Gordon.jpg
| birth_date = 1812
| death_date = 1888
| address = Athenaeum
| occupation = academic<br />medical<br />ethnologist<br />philologist
| elected_ESL = 1844.12.07
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL ordinary fellow<br />ESL, AI Hon. Fellow 1860.11.27
| left = 1853.12.21 resigns
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies = Royal Society<br />Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1845-46 Member<br />ESL Council 1846-47 Member<br />ESL Council 1847-48 Member<br />ESL Council 1848-49 Member<br />ESL Council 1849-50 Hon. Secretary<br />ESL Council 1850-51 Vice President [resigns Oct. 1850]
=== House Notes ===
Committee to consider future of Society Apr 1849; recommended as Secretary Jun 1849; Committee to consider means of improving prospects of Society Mar 1850
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Gordon Latham FRS (24 March 1812 – 9 March 1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1851
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===

=== House Publications ===
On the language of the Oregon Territory. read 11 dec. 1844<br />On the Ethnography of Russian America READ 19 Feb 1845 <br />supplement [to daniell's paper] upon the philological ethnography of the countries around the Bight of Biafra 28 jan. 1846<br />On the Caucasian tribes. Read 12 Apr 1848<br />Abstract of the transactions of the ethnological subsection of the meeting of the BA at Swansea. Read 22 Nov. 1848<br />The principle of classification of groups of languages, with particular reference to certain supposed additions to the Indo-European tribes of languages. Read 20 Dec. 1848. Printed<br />On the route of the population of Polynesia. Read Nov. 1849<br />On certain peculiarities of the Mexican method of numeration. AND On certain recent additions to the philosophical ethnography of New Caledonia, Oregon, and California. Read Dec. 1849<br />On the relation of the Mexican civilization to that of the other populations of America. Read Mar 1850<br />On the minute ethnology of Europe <br />On the pagan population of the Indian archipelago
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