[f. next: see -IST.] One who pursues the science of anthropology, a student of mankind.
1798. Willich, Elem. Crit. Philos., 22. Plattner, that excellent Anthropologist … has employed rational scepticism against the Kantian System.
1805. Edin. Rev., VI. 123. M. Peron, who embarked in the capacity of anthropologist to the expedition, and who, being specially charged with the ‘study of man,’ ranks at the tail of the zoologists.
1879. A. R. Wallace, Australasia, i. 6. The variety of human races … and the interesting problems which they present to the anthropologist.
