Samuel George Morton
1799–1851
American physician and ethnologist. Known for his research on human skulls. Recording secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1825–9; corresponding secretary, 1831; vice-president, 1840, president, 1849. Professor of anatomy in the medical department, Pennsylvania College, 1839–43.
Sources
ANB
DSB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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