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Charles

Sedgwick Minot (December

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 Leipzig, Paris, and Würzburg. 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.