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Darwin Correspondence Project

George Murray Humphry

1820–96

Surgeon and anatomist. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1841. Lectured on human anatomy, Cambridge University, 1847–66; professor of human anatomy, 1866–83; of surgery from 1883. Founder and co-editor of the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, 1867. Knighted, 1891. FRS 1859.

Source

DNB

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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