Walter Baldwin Spencer

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (born June 23, 1860 in Stretford , Lancashire , † July 14, 1929 in Navarino ) was an Australian biologist , anthropologist and ethnologist of British origin.

His works on the Arunta (together with Francis James Gillen ) and the northern tribes of Central Australia are famous . He was named Chief Protector of Aborigines by the government .

He published the report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia .

In 1919 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George . The Royal Society of New South Wales awarded him the Clarke Medal in 1923 . The Cape Spencer in Antarctica bears his name.

Works

• Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia / Baldwin Spencer. - London [u. a.]: Dulau, 1896 (Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia)
  • Part 1 Introduction, Narrative, Summary of results, Supplement to zoological report, Map
  • Part 2 Zoology
  • Part 3 Geology and Botany
  • Part 4 Anthropology
• The Native Tribes of Central Australia. London, Macmillan, 1899 (with FJ Gillen)
• The Northern Tribes of Central Australia . London, 1904 (with FJ Gillen)
• Across Australia. 2 volumes. London: Macmillian, 1912 (with FJ Gillen)
• Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia. London, 1914
• The Arunta: a Study of a Stone Age People. 2 volumes. London: Macmillan, 1927 (with FJ Gillen)
• Wanderings in wild Australia: in two volumes. London: Macmillan, 1928
• Spencer's scientific correspondence with Sir JG Frazer and others. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1932

Web links

• Dictionary of Australian Biography
• The University of Melbourne - Walter Baldwin Spencer ( April 9, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive )
• Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia