For an account of Rivers' contribution to medicine, as well as an appraisal of him as a humane and civilising influence, see the piece by C. S. Breathnach, 'W. H. R. Rivers and the Hazards of Interpretation', in 'Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine', vol. 86 (1993), 413-16. This article has been added to the archive as GBR/3377/WHRivers/5/2.