biography
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| (1814–74)
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| biography:
| Anatomist and ethnologist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA. The leading anatomist of his day, he lectured among other institutions at Harvard, where he was curator of what became the Peabody Museum (1866–74). His published work, renowned for its precision and accuracy, included the first description of the gorilla's skeletal structure, but he is best known by later archaeologists for his pioneering excavations and reports of shell middens in Florida. |
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