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William Kitchen Parker

1823–90

Comparative anatomist. A general practitioner in Pimlico, London; also did a great deal of biological research. Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, from 1873. Known for his research on the skull. FRS 1865.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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