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Up for sale a RARE! "Anatomist " Charles Sedgwick Minot Clipped Signature.
23, 1852 – November 19, 1914) was an American anatomist and a founding member of the American
Society for Psychical Research Charles Sedgwick Minot was born
December 23, 1852 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
His mother was Catharine "Kate" Maria Sedgwick (1820–1880) and father
was William Minot II (1817–1894). Through his mother, namesake of her aunt,
novelist Catharine Sedgwick (1789–1867),
he was twice connected to the New England Dwight family of
academics.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1872, studied biology At Harvard Medical School he
taught from 1880 till his death as the James Stillman Professor of comparative anatomy in 1905 and director of the anatomical laboratories in 1912. He
was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
1901, and of the Association of American Anatomists from 1904 to 1905, and
was corresponding member of various foreign societies.
Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Yale University, the University of Toronto, St.
Andrews, and Oxford. From 1912 to 1913
he served as Harvard exchange professor at Berlin and Jena. He died
on November 19, 1914 in Milton, Massachusetts. His
cousin once removed, George Richards Minot (1885–1950),
named for his great-grandfather George Richards Minot (1758–1802), shared
the Nobel Prize
in Medicine in 1934. Minot was a founding member of
the American
Society for Psychical Research. He later resigned due to its
unscientific outlook. He was highly critical of Alfred Percy Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism and
the claims of Theosophy.
