Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia records, 1885-1914, with additional material, 1921-1926...
Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia records, 1885-1914, with additional material, 1921-1926, 1991, and papers of Alan Carroll, 1886-1892
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Date
1885-1914, 1921-1926, 1991
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7603
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Formats
Manuscripts and Clippings
Physical Description
Contents
1.12 metres of textual material (7 boxes)
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Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Minutes / papers, 1895-1908, & General correspondence, 1895-1899).
General correspondence, 1900-1903).
Microfilm : CY 4782, frames 1-369 (MLMSS 7603/2: Correspondence, 1904-1914).
Microfilm : CY 4935A, frames 1-815 (MLMSS 7603/3: Journal manuscripts and correspondence, 1885-1911)
Microfilm : CY 4935B, frames 1-625 (MLMSS 7603/3: Journal manuscripts and correspondence, 1885-1911)
Microfilm : CY 4556, frames 1 - 256 (MLMSS 7603/5: Lists of Aboriginal place names, 1899 - 1901 & 1921 - 1926).
Microfilm : CY 4556, frames 257 - 322 (MLMSS 7603/5: Western Australian place names, 1899 - 1903).
Microfilm : CY 4555, frames 1 - 495 (MLMSS 7603/4: New South Wales place names, 1899 - 1903)
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Contents
BOX 1:
FOLDER 1: MINUTES OF MEETINGS, FOUNDATION DOCUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, 1895-1908
Includes minutes of meetings, 5 Dec. 1895-10 May 1904; circular letters, 3 Sept. and 21 Oct. 1895, inviting 'certain gentlemen' to join a Society founded 'for the study of the Aboriginals of Australia and neighbouring Islands and comparing them with...
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Full title
Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia records, 1885-1914, with additional material, 1921-1926, 1991, and papers of Alan Carroll, 1886-1892
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
Bingham, Hiram, 1831-1908
Bowler, A. C. R.
Bray, Joshua
Bucknell, F. N.
Bucknell, William Wentworth, 1858-1926
Cameron, A. L. P.
Carroll, Alan, ca. 1823-1911
Carruthers, J. H. (Joseph Hector), 1857-1932
Chisholm, J. R.
Close, John H.
Dorph, William P. F.
Enright, W. J.
Farnell, Frank, 1862-1928
Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907
Fox, M.
Fraser, A.
Greenway, Charles Capel, 1818-1905
Gribble, E. R. B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), 1868-1957
Harper, Walter R
Hassall, W. W.
Henderson, William R.
Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908
Ivens, W. G. (Walter George), b. 1871
Izett, D.
Jardine, William
Notes
General note
Two boxes of papers of Alan Carroll are held at MLMSS 144, a volume of further papers is held at MLMSS 2137 and 5 boxes of further papers are held at MLMSS 8080.
Other records relating to the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia are held by the Australian Academy of Science Adolf Basser Library, Canberra at MS 026.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales in 1992.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Anthropological Society of Australasia was formed in 1895 'to study Anthropology in all its branches, or sections, and to carry out investigations therein'. It became the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia in 1900. The Society's journal, first called 'The Australasian Anthropological Journal' then 'The Science of Man and Australasian...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7603
Record Identifier
1wN2oExn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wN2oExn
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Reference code
421736
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