Annotations by Baldwin Spencer in his 'Native tribes of Central Australia'. 1899.

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Spencer, Baldwin Sir, 1860-1929. Annotations by Baldwin Spencer in his 'Native tribes of Central Australia'.

Annotations by Baldwin Spencer in his 'Native tribes of Central Australia'. 1899.

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Handwritten corrections and notes made by Baldwin Spencer to a copy of his publication, 'Native Tribes of Central Australia', by Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen. London : MacMillan, 1899. Baldwin Spencer, an Oxford graduate (BA 1884) and Lincoln College Fellow (1886), was appointed to the foundation chair of biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887 and in this position was an active administrator and teacher (retired as emeritus professor 1919). He was president of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1891-93 and 1895-97, president of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1904, and a trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1895. Spencer was zoologist and photographer to the first major scientific expedition to central Australia (the 1894 Horn Expedition) and edited the reports of the expedition (considered "one of the most sustantial contributions to 19th Century exploration and natural history in Australia"). Baldwin Spencer also participated in numerous other field trips to Central and Northern Australia throughout his career, working in collaboration with Francis Gillen. From 'Bright Sparcs', Melbourne University (online).

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