Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1855-1940 (anthropologist)
Biography
Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940), anthropologist, was born in London on 24 May 1855. He attended various schools in London including the City of London School in 1866 and Mill Hill School in 1867-8. After attending evening classes at King's College, London, he taught zoology and geology at a girls' school in Dover, and in 1875 Haddon entered Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1878 he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos (comparative anatomy), and in 1879 he was given a grant by the university to work for six months at the zoological station at Naples, and on his return from Naples he was appointed curator of the Zoological Museum at Cambridge and a university demonstrator in zoology. Haddon was appointed professor of zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, where he also served as assistant naturalist to the Science and Art Museum in 1880. In 1888-9, with the aid of grants from the Royal Irish Academy and the Darwin fund of the Royal Society, he went to the Torres Strait to study the marine biology of coral reefs. Haddon began lecturing in physical anthropology at Cambridge (1894-8), where he was awarded a DSc degree in 1897. The following year he organized and led the famous Cambridge anthropological expedition of 1898-9 to the Torres Strait and New Guinea. In 1900, on the strength of the scientific results of the expedition, he was appointed university lecturer in ethnology at Cambridge, and in 1901 election into a fellowship at Christ's College permitted him to resign his Dublin chair. In 1910 Haddon completed his History of Anthropology and the following year published The Wanderings of Peoples. He died at his home, 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge, on 20 April 1940.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Cort Haddon: Letter to James Anderson, 1919
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Correspondence from J.S. Stuart-Glennie to Professor [Alfred C.] Haddon, 17 May 1894-4 July 1894
Letter from John M. Brown (1846-1935) to A.C. Haddon, 25 Dec. 1905
Manners and customs of the Polynesians
Letter from L.F. Taylor to Alfred C. Haddon, 16 Apr. 1927
He encloses an Ethnological Questionnaire [Ethnographical and Linguistic Survey of Burma]; closure of the survey is postponed; 200 volunteers will conduct inquiries into local customs and beliefs; the Governors of University College Rangoon will not consider his work; he hopes to be put in charge of the Burma Museum
Miles Crawford Burkitt: Correspondence and Papers
The collection comprises postcards, notebooks, archaeological notes, correspondence, articles and cuttings.
'Standards of Spelling', 1932-1950 (Circa)
Includes correspondence, notes on miscellaneous topics and off-prints
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