biography
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| lived:
| (1825–1910)
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| biography:
| Entomologist and ethnologist, born in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. He was a lawyer and minister turned scientist, and as state entomologist he wrote a report on Illinois insects (1877–82). Appointed archaeology chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1882), he directed a major survey of Indian mounds, and pioneered Maya studies. |
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