Professor Charles Gabriel Seligman, the famous surgeon and Professor of Ethnology at London University, has been awarded the Annandale Memorial Medal for research in anthropology in Asia, by the annual meeting of the Asictic Society of Bengal at Calcutta.
Professor Seligman, who is 58 years of age, is untorian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, and a former President of the Royal Anthropological Society. He took part in several anthropological expoditions in Asia and Africa.
Professor Seligman is among his many various activities interested in the work of the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain, of which he is a Vice President, with the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, the Haham Dr. M. Gaster, Professor Charles S. Myers and Dr. A. Eichhols.
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