Anthropological Society of London - Other Organisations

Other Organisations

In 1873, Richard Burton and others founded a breakaway London Anthropological Society which for several years published a journal "Anthropologia". Burton said "My motive was to supply travellers with an organ that would rescue their observations from the outer darkness of manuscripts and print their curious information on social and sexual matters out of place in the popular book".

There was also an Anthropological Society of London founded in 1836 by John Isaac Hawkins which had more to do with phrenology.

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