![]() ![]() During the Crimean War he was on the medical staff of a civilian hospital at Renkioi in the Dardanelles. Beddoe put this matter on a firm basis of observed fact, of which his interpretations were in keeping with the evidence.Īfter receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree, Beddoe served as a house physician in the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary. Prior thereto much speculation about the origins of the physical varieties of man in Europe had been largely guesswork. The year after his death, they appeared in a revised form: The Anthropological History of Europe, Being the Rhind Lectures for 1912 (1912).Įven though today, over half a century after Beddoe’s death, it is no longer considered possible to lump together in any meaningful way the facts and hypotheses about the physical, linguistic, and cultural history of Britain and Europe, we should not forget that Beddoe’s work was instrumental in the development of anthropology. In the preface Beddoe says: “The successful work, however, though composed expressly for the occasion, was really the outcome of a great part of the leisure of fifteen years devoted to the application of the numerical and inductive method to the ethnology of Britain and of Western Europe.” Beddoe’s Rhind lectures extended the theme of his Eisteddfod essay to cover all Europe. In 1868 Beddoe published the essay as The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe (1885). His Races of Britain is dedicated “to Rudolf Virchow and Paul Topinard, and to the memory of Paul Broca and Joseph Barnard Davis.” Upon his return to England in 1857 he set up a medical practice in Clifton, a suburb of Bristol, where he remained until his retirement in 1891.įrom the age of twenty Beddoe was a keen observer of the physical variations in man, beginning with observations on hair and eye color in the west of England, then extending his work to the Orkneys, which resulted in his Contributions to Scottish Ethnology ( 1853). After the war he went to Vienna to complete his medical training, then made an extensive tour of Austria, Hungary, Italy, and France, studying medicine and physical anthropology. (age 84) Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, United KingdomĪfter receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree, Beddoe served as a house physician in the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary. ![]()
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