William Channing Webb

William Channing Webb
Occupation	Professor of anthropology at Princeton University
Affiliations	American Anthropology Society
Species	Human
First appearance	HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu"
Created by	H. P. Lovecraft

William Channing Webb is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University and "an explorer of no slight note." When Inspector John Raymond Legrasse conferred with a meeting of the American Anthropology Society about the Cthulhu Cult, Professor Webb was the only member of the assembly to be familiar with an idol found during the raid and the ritualistic chants used by the cult, based on his investigation of a "singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux" he encountered "high up on the West Greenland coast" in 1860. (HPL: "The Call of Cthulhu")