Alfred Cort Haddon
1855–1940
Zoologist and anthropologist. BA in natural sciences, Cambridge, 1878. Professor of zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1880–1901. Studied islanders in the Torres Strait, 1888–9. Began lecturing in anthropology at Cambridge, 1894; appointed lecturer in anthropology, 1900; reader, 1909. Led an expedition to the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1898–9. Deputy curator, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1920. FRS 1899.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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