John Grattan (naturalist)
Irish naturalist and anthropologist
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John Grattan (1800, Dublin −1871) was an Irish naturalist and anthropologist .
John Grattan was an apothecary in Belfast. He had wide interests in natural history and was a member of the Belfast Natural History Society but is best known for his work on ancient Irish skulls collected by his friend Edmund Getty . He devised a system of skull measurements using an ingenious craniometer. "Grattan's work was almost contemporaneous with that of Anders Retzius , and nearly all of it was done before the German and French Schools had elaborated their schemes of skull measurements [1]
References
- ↑ Johnson Symington, 1903-4 Grattan: A Sketch of His Work as a Craniologist:An Address to the Members of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. Annual report Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society 1903-4
External links
- On the Importance, to the Archæologist and Ethnologist, of an Accurate Mode of Measuring Human Crania, and of Recording the Results; With the Description of a New Craniometer The Ulster Journal of Archæology
- Notice of the Examination of an Ancient Sepulchral Mound The Ulster Journal of Archaeology
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