Guide to the Papers of Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (as filmed by the AJCP), 07 October 1880-28 May 1932

Summary

Collection number:

M2422 - M2425

Creator:

Spencer, Walter Baldwin, Sir

Extent:

651 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence, notebooks, diaries and papers relating to the Horn expedition to central Australia in 1894; Spencer's anthropological interests, research and writings on the Indigenous Australians. There are also many references to Melbourne and Oxford Universities. Most of the letters are dated 1884-1903.

Major correspondents are A.W. Howitt, L. Fison, A.C. Haddon, E.B. Tylor, G.C. Bourne, Sir E. Ray Lankester, G.B. Howes, F.J. Gillen, H. Goulty, A. Lang, P. Cahill, H. Balfour, Sir James Frazer and W.A. Horn.

Biographical / Historical:

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, 1860-1929, was a biologist and ethnographer. He was educated at Owen College, Manchester and Exeter College, Oxford, obtaining a B.A. in Natural Science in 1884. He became Professor in Biology at Melbourne University, 1887-1919 and in collaboration with F.J. Gillen, 1894-1912, and afterwards alone investigated the unknown world of the stone-age people of Central Australia. He wrote Native Tribes of Central Australia, 1839; Northern Tribes of Central Australia, 1904 and The Arunta, 1927.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn781818] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, England For further information see Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer at the Pitt Rivers Museum(https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/spencer-papers).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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