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'''Robert Knox'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Robert
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow 1843?<br />ESL Hon. Fellow 1860.11.27
| left = 1845.05.24 withdrawn because of arrears in subscription for 1844struck off
| clubs =
| societies = Imperial Academy of Medicine of France<br />Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Royal Society of Edinburgh<br />Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1862-63 Hon. Curator<br />possibly more, needs checking
=== House Notes ===
Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of France, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris etc FRSE FRCSE MWS<br />1845.05.24 From the list of members in arrear of their subscriptions for 1844 the Council determined to withdraw the following Gentlemen: Augustine Aglio Esq., Robert Knox, MD, Hon. R. Murray Dundas, Hamilton Roe, MD, J.W. Holgate, MD, Edwin C. Suttor Esq., H.N. Holme Esq., George Waterhouse Esq. <br /><br />See 'The origin of the anthropological review' AR vol. 6, no. 23 (oct 1868): ... Robert Knox was, in the year 1855, proposed an ordinary Fellow of the Society, and black-balled! He was, however, elected in 1858 as an Honorary Fellow, to the horror and indignation of the Quakers<br /><br />1862.06.17 It was resolved that Dr Knox should be appointed Honorary Curator to the Ethnological Society.<br /><br />Arthur Keith article: '... his meteoric career in Edinburgh had come to an end; in the early days of the ESL he was an Ishmaelite in London, preaching his gospel of race with a rapier tongue ... he was virulent, clever and heterodox, dealing in racial prophecies and hating all accepted forms of religion ...<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Knox, FRSE FRCSE MWS (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist. He was the most popular lecturer in anatomy in Edinburgh before his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. This ruined his career, and a later move to London did not improve matters. His later pessimistic view of humanity contrasted sharply with his youthful attachment to the ideas of Étienne Geoffroy.