Walter Baldwin Spencer
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English-Australian biologist and anthropologist.
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Walter Baldwin Spencer's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of Melbourne
- Doctorate Biology University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer , commonly referred to as Baldwin Spencer, was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in Central Australia, contributions to the study of ethnography, and academic collaborations with Frank Gillen. Spencer introduced the study of zoology at the University of Melbourne and held the title of Emeritus Professor until his death in 1929. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and knighted in 1916.
Walter Baldwin Spencer's Published Works
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- Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (126)
- The Arunta : a study of a Stone Age people (1928) (59)
- Wanderings in wild Australia (48)
- Memoirs: The Structure and Development of the Hairs of Monotremes and Marsupials (15)
- Preliminary notes on Tasmanian earthworms (11)
- A collection of sub–fossil bird and marsupial remains from King Island, Bass Strait (11)
- Preliminary description of a new species of Apus (10)
- The Horn Expedition to Central Australia (10)
- Some Remarks on Totemism as Applied to Australian Tribes (9)
- Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J G Frazer and Others (1933) (9)
- Description of a new genus of terrestrial Isopoda, allied to the genus Phreatoicus (8)
- Mammalia. [Reprinted from the Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Part 2 - Zoology] / (7)
- Description of two new species of marsupials from Central Australia (6)
- Art. IV.—Further descriptions of Australian earthworms, Part I (5)
- Preliminary notice of two new species of marsupials from Central Australia (3)
- A new family of Hydroidea, together with a description of the structure of a new species of Plumularia, by W. Baldwin Spencer. (3)
- The Presence of a Stridulating Organ in a Spider (1895) (2)
- Description of a new species of Sminthopsis (2)
- Spencer's Last Journey, Being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra Del Fuego (1931) (2)
- Introduction, narrative, summary of results, supplement to zoological report, map (2)
- Spencer's Last Journey: being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra del Fuego by the late Sir Baldwin Spencer; with a Memoir (1932) (2)
- Australian Ethnology@@@Across Australia (1912) (1)
- The existing species of the genus Phascolomys (1)
- Artp IVp—Further descriptions of Australian earthwormsc Part I (0)
- 143. The Australian Ethnological Expedition; Part of a Letter Received from Professor Baldwin Spencer (0)
- Introducing Religion and Nature Religion and Nature Conundrums the Evolution of Interest in Religion and Nature Religion and Nature from Seventeenth-century Europe to the Environmental Age (0)
- Artp Vp—Preliminary notes on Tasmanian earthworms (0)
- Australian Ethnology@@@The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (1904) (0)
- Description of a new species of Peripatoides from Western Australia (0)
- Geology and botany (0)
- Australian Aborigines@@@Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (1915) (0)
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