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Authorised form of name	Tylor; Sir; Edward Burnet (1832 - 1917)
Dates	1832 - 1917
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Camberwell, London, England
Date of birth	02 October 1832
Place of death	Wellington, Somerset
Date of death	02/01/1917
Research field	Anthropology
Research field	Archaeology
Activity	Education: DCL (1875, Oxford) Career: Worked in his father's foundry; gave up due to ill health; went to Mexico to study its anthropology and archaeology; published 'Primitive man' (1871); Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford (1883); Reader in Anthropology (1884), then Professor of Anthropology, Oxford University (1896-1909); retired Honours: Kt 1912
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	08/06/1871
Other Royal Society activity	Member of Committee formed to consider the formation of a new Academy on 18 January 1900
Relationships	Son Joseph Tylor, brassfounder, and his wife Harriet Skipper, both Quakers; married (1858) Anna, daughter of Sylvanus Fox of Wellington, Somerset
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Royal Society code	NA2273

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
EC/1871/12	Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/004688	Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet	nd
IM/Maull/004687	Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet	1893
NLB/5/60	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Burnett Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society	4 March 1891
NLB/14/635	Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [George Howard] Darwin, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	12 April 1897
NLB/20/778	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Edward Burnet Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society	7 July 1900
NLB/54/107	Copy letter from Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to Mrs Tylor, [Wife of Sir Edward Burnet Tylor, FRS]	6 February 1917
NLB/33/763	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Burnet Tylor, Fellow of the Royal Society	31 October 1906
NLB/45/259	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons	26 January 1912
NLB/45/218	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Edward Tylor FRS	22 January 1912
NLB/54/90	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [John] Evans, FRS	5 February 1917
RR/10/345	Referee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'The patterns in thumb and finger Marks.—On their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permance of the papillary ridges that makes them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinary genera' by Francis Galton	26 November 1890
RR/13/225	Referee's report by Edward Burnett Tylor, on a paper 'A Maya calendar inscription, interpreted by Goodman's tables' by Alfred Percival Maudslay	25 May 1897

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