Cambridge University Library - William Halse Rivers - Papers, 1898-1954

M 2619-2625

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432891

Microfilm : M 2619-2625. See contents list (17pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 16.

microfilm reels 35 mm

Doctor and lecturer on psychology. In 1898 he took part in the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait. In 1908 he made his first expeditions to Melanesia where he worked with A.M. Hocart in Western Solomons, returning to Melanesia in 1914.
The Rivers Papers are part of the Haddon Papers at Cambridge University Library. The Haddon Papers have been listed separately (M 2728-2759: Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 19) and should be consulted for further material relating to Rivers, and the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits.

Correspondence, notes, kinship tables, vocabularies, articles, photographs, drawings by Torres Strait Islanders, press cuttings, sketch maps and other papers relating to the Torres Strait Expedition, the 1914 New Hebrides Expedition and the ethnology and anthropology of the New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Torres Strait and elsewhere in Melanesia

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
The Rivers papers are part of the Haddon Papers at Cambridge University Library. The Haddon Papers have been listed separately and should be consulted for further material relating to Rivers and the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2619-2625
Microfilm copy of originals held by Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge
Descriptive list available (17 p.)