John George Garson (23 July 1854Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 – 31 May 1932) was a Scottish anthropologist.
Born at Birsay, Orkney,1911 England Census he obtained the degree Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1878, having already been admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons in that city. His education continued in Leipzig, Vienna and Berlin. He was widely recognised as an authority on anthropology, a long-serving and prominent council member of Royal Anthropological Institute, publishing in their journal, and attached to the anthropological section of the British Association, editing and revising their new edition of Notes and Queries on Anthropology (1892). He read papers as a lecturer in comparative anatomyGarson, J. G. "On the Physical Characteristics of the Lapps." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 15, (1886), pp. 235-238 and produced the chapter on osteology in H. Ling Roth's The Aborigines of Tasmania.The Aborigines of Tasmania by H. Ling Roth; assisted by Marion E. Butler and Jas. Backhouse Walker; with a chapter on the osteology by J.G. Garson; preface by Edward B. Tylor He founded the Anthropometric Department of Scotland Yard, which initially dealt with fingerprinting and his own speciality, anthropometry.
He died in Epsom, Surrey in 1932.England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
Publications Bent, J. Theodore; John George Garson; David Heinrich von Müller. 1893. The sacred city of the Ethiopians: being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893. Ethiopica. .
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