[1] He studied at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, and became licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1825, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1828, and fellow in 1852.

[1] Dunn was a phrenologist and associated at the Westminster Medical Society with others (John S. Streeter, Forbes Winslow and Edward Wright).

He was Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, along with the phrenologists Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster and Joseph Moore.

[4] The work Civilisation and Cerebral Development has been discussed as a representative example of the progression of the period from craniometry to conclusions on race.

[6] Media related to Robert Dunn (surgeon) at Wikimedia Commons