Foundation
A prospectus for the Ethnological Society was issued in July 1842 by Richard King. The Society first met in February 1843 at Thomas Hodgkin's house; or on 31 January, when Ernst Dieffenbach read a paper On the Study of Ethnology.
King had been a student under Hodgkin at Guy's Hospital. Among the other founders were James Cowles Prichard and John Brown. The Society had Corresponding Members, who counted as Fellows; they later included Hermann Welcker. In the early days the Society had rooms at 27 Sackville Street, which were rented through King to the Westminster Medical Society.
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