Doctor Chil

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Gregorio Chil y Naranjo (1831-1901) was forever passionate about anthropological and historical-architectural subjects in general, although his basic training was in medicine, which was key to him advancing in physical anthropology studies that started up in the Canaries. His greatest achievement was the legacy he left in his Estudios históricos, climatológicos y patológicos de las Islas Canarias. He also played a key role in the founding of the Museo Canario, as its first director and leading light. 

«Even when the occasion arises that I am considered wrong, with evidence and clear documents, I claim, however, the privilege of initiative and I shall lament, even though I may be in the sepulchre, not to have existed to be the first to proclaim the new doctrine developed on a solid basis, and back them up with the latest and most definitive proof that can be found.»

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