George Busk ( 1807 - 1886 )

Birth: St Petersburg, Russia (12 August 1807) Death: 32 Harley Street, London (10 August 1886) Profession: Surgeon Research Field: Medicine, natural history, anthropology Career: Surgeon, 'Dreadnought' Hospital-ship (in 1849); RCS Hunterian Professor of camparative anatomy and physiology and president of the college - zoologist and anthropologist/palaeontologist with a particular interest in bone.