Ernest Hamy, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais (62)

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DOCTEUR HAMY
ANTHROPOLOGUE
ÉTHNOGRAPHE
1842–1908'

Ernest Hamy was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, was a medical doctor by education and the founder of the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1878, and, with Albert Gaudry and Georges Pouchet, the co-founder of the Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée in 1898. His most well-known publications are Précis de paléontologie humaine (1870), Crania Ethnica (with A. De Quatrefages and in two volumes (1875-82), and Les Origines du musée d'ethnographie (1890).