Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson

Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson
Born	1844
Died	1909
Residence	Ralum, Bismark Archipelago
Occupation	collector
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1909 deceased elected_AI 1897.04.13

Notes

House Notes

1897.03.30 proposed by O.M. Dalton
death noted in report of the council for 1909: Herr R. Parkinson, well known for his writings on the Bismarck Archipelago, died in July. He had been a fellow of the Institute since 1897, and in him Germany loses one of her most active field workers.

Notes From Elsewhere

Ralum was an albeit short-lived research station in the Bismarck Archipelago where the German zoologist Friedrich Dahl stayed from 1896 to 1897 collecting for the Berlin Museum of Natural History. It had been almost forgotten although the museum gained a huge amount of material for all its collections. The project was initiated by the German trader and naturalist Richard Parkinson who held large plantations in the colony of what was then German New Guinea
Born 13 Nov. 1844, died 24 July 1909, buried near Kokopo, New Britain, in a forgotten and neglected grave.
Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson wrote in German; born in the Duchy of Schleswig in Denmark. Biological father the Duke of Augustenborg; mother Louise Sophie Caroline Bruning, daughter of a local shoemaker and lady in waiting to the Duke's wife ... [more details in Univ. of Sydney translation of his book by John Dennison]

Born Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark; died Herbertshohe, Neu Pommern (New Britain). Worked for Godeffroy & Sohn collecting ethnographic objects for Godeffroy museum. In Samoa from 1875-1882, and then moved to New Britain. He produced numerous publications in German and English.

Publications

External Publications

Thirty years in the South Seas: land and people, customs and traditions in the Bismark Archipelago and on the German Solomon Islands