Anne Walbank Buckland
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| Born | 1832 | ||||||||
| Died | 1899 | ||||||||
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6 Beaufort Buildings, Bath [1875] 5 Upper East Hayes, Bath [1879] 106 Guildford Street, WC [1881] 54 Doughty Street, WC [1883] 5 Beaumont Crescent, West Kensington, W [1894] | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
proposed 1875.04.13
one of second batch of women to be elected
A31/3/2 has Beaufort Buildings address crossed out, and 5 Upper East Hayes handwritten
1899.01.10 The death of Miss Buckland was reported, and it was directed that a letter of condolence be sent to Mrs Carey Hobson
1899 Rudler's Presidential address: It is with unfeigned regret that I have to include in the list of members who have recently passed away in the course of nature, the name of Miss ANNE WALLBANK BUCKLAND. At a Special Meeting of this Institute held on March 9 , 1875,a proposition, introduced, if I remember rightly, by General Pitt-Rivers,to admit ladies as members, was carried; and Miss Buckland was not slow to avail herself of the privilege of admission. For some three-and-twenty years her name has consequently been standing on our roll of Fellows. Nor was her membership a mere formal matter. The keen interest which Miss Buckland took in all branches of anthropology attracted her to our meetings, where - as well as the anthropological section of the British Association - she was a regular attendant, accompanied by her devoted friend Mrs. Carey-Hobson. Ever ready to take an active part in our discussions, Miss Buckland will long be remembered in this Institute; whilst successive volumes of our Journal bear ample testimony to her devotion to the science, and her desire to elucidate some of its perplexing problems. The industry with which she wielded her skilful pen maybe seen in her essays on such varied subjects as primitive agriculture, prehistoric monuments, serpent-worship, rhabdomancy and belomancy, the mythology of birds, tattooing, neolithic surgery, the use of stimulants among savages, prehistoric intercourse between the West and the East, etc. Under the title of Anthropological Studies, Miss Buckland published, in 1891, a work which consisted chiefly of essays which she had contributed to our Journal and to the Westminster Review; and it is pleasing to recall the fact that the volume in question bears a dedication “to the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland." At the time of her decease Miss Buckland was engaged upon the preparation of another anthropological volume, to be entitled Fossils of a Vanishing Faith, or Necromantic Survivals. No other lady in this country has, to my knowledge, done so much to popularize anthropology as was accomplished by our valued friend; and it was, to many of us, a matter of profound satisfaction when, in consideration of her services, she was placed a few years ago on the Civil List. Miss Buckland unhappily did not long enjoy her pension. She died at her residence at West Kensington on January 4th, at the age of sixty-seven.
Notes From Elsewhere
Anne Walbank Buckland
she and Mrs Carey Hobson both members of the Royal Colonial Institute. Mrs C-B wrote books for Religious tract society, including stories of south africa - Miss Buckland sent AI picture of 100 yr old kaffir
Anne W Buckland was born Malmesbury, Wiltshire about 1832. She may have gone to Netherbury, Dorset because there is a 1851 census entry for a governess of 19 years with her name. At the age of 29, in the 1861 census, she is living at 6 Beaufort Buildings, Walcot, Bath with her aunt Elizabeth Buckland (age 50) and a couple of servants. At 39 and 49 years old, she is at the same Bath address, according to the census. Post-1871 census, she moved to London and died at 5, Beaumont-crescent, West Kensington, London
1881 Census - Anne is described as a Dividends Student, Guilford Street, London (Not far from the RAI)
Edinburgh Evening News (syndicated article in lots of newspapers across the UK) July 7, 1896
£80 pension, civil list - Anne Walbank Buckland
The Bath Chronicle Thursday March, 30 1899 Royal Literary & Scientific Institution Annual meeting:
'...The regret of the Committee should be received also on the loss by death of Miss Ann Walbanke Buckland, who, while residing in Bath, commenced the practical examination and studies of the light thrown on objects of antiquity by the habits and utensils now to be found among modern savage peoples, which since she left Bath for London have formed the subject of many papers to be found in the transactions of various learned societies. She was the author of a recent romance called "Margery Moore", wherein we are presented some well drawn pictures of Bath life in the last century. In recognition of her services in the arrangement of our museum, you elected her an honorary member of our Institution...'
Probate
AWB Died January 4, 1899
Estate £1318
A brief bio about Anne W Buckland in this book - p.36:
Creese, Mary RS, (2000) 'Ladies in the Laboratory? American & British Women in Science 1800-1900'
Anne Walbank Buckland, M.A.I. (1832-1899)[1] [2] was an anthropologist, ethnologist, and travel writer. She presented new ideas on mythology, symbolism and custom
Buckland's father, William Buckland, was a civil engineer and surveyor. The family lived in the rural hamlit of Bremilham, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England
Buckland was one of the first women to join The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland after it voted to admit women on March 9, 1875. She donated a photograph to the Institute, which was used by the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson to encourage and instruct members in collecting quality photographs for ethnological research.[6] In his 1899 address to members, the president of the institute remarked about Buckland, that after more than twenty years of scientific contributions, "No other lady in this country, has to my knowledge, done so much to popularize anthropology as was accomplished by our valued friend".[7]
Buckland also joined the British Association for the Advancement of Science[8] and was elected an Honorary Member of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) on 23 March 1876 for her work in arranging the ‘Lockey Museum’ (the anthropological section of the museum). [9] [10]
Some of her ideas on mythology, symbolism and custom were contrary to fellow anthropologists at that time, including that agriculturists were the first to worship the moon, that this worship preceded that of the sun deity in Egypt, China and the East, and that it was metallurgists who originated worship of the sun and serpents.[3] She suggested, that based on the prominence given to the rabbit in artifacts of American sculptures and hieroglyphics, that either the Eastern hemisphere influenced ideas and customs of prehistoric society in America or vice versa.[3] Fritze[11] considered Buckland to be a "proto-hyper-diffusionist" who advanced the idea that aspects of ancient culture were dispersed or "diffused" to other cultures and continents by way of trade interactions and migration, rather than arising by coincidence. Later diffusionists, who built upon her work, became more Egyptocentric than she, such as Elliot Smith.[11]
Buckland published anthropological papers in Westminster Review and the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, many of which were the basis of oral presentations at scientific meetings. A collection of her scholarly essays, Anthropological Studies, was recognized internationally and added to the library of the US Bureau of Ethnology in 1883.[12
Great Britain added Buckland to its Civil List Pension, an annual monetary award in recognition of her scientific work.[13] She provided BRLSI with numerous artifacts for its collection, including several stone implements and weapons collected from Cape Flats, South Africa by Dr. Langham Dale. A contemporary of Buckland, Dale was among the first scholars to recognize and publish findings of prehistoric stone artifacts in southern Africa.[14] Artifacts associated with Buckland are also in the collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum,[15] including a Later Stone Age bored stone from the Cape of Good Hope.[14] Her 1893 book of old international recipes set in historical context is considered a classic culinary text,[16] continues to be reproduced, and is widely available.[17]
Publications
External Publications
Our Viands: Whence They Come and how They are Cooked, with a Bundle of Old Recipes from Cookery Book by Anne Walbank Buckland, 1893
The World Beyond the Esterelles, 1884 by A. W. Buckland
Ober Ammergau and its people, in connection with the passion play and miracle plays in general, etc. Author: Buckland, Anne Walbank. Date: 1872
Anthropological studies
Anne Walbank Buckland
Ward and Downey, 1891
House Publications
The serpent in connection with primitive metallurgy. 1874.03.10
Rhabdomancy and belomancy, or divination by the rod and by the arrow. with discussion. 1875.12.28
Human and animal remains found at Bath, 1870. 1876.06.27
Primitive agriculture. with discussion. 1977.02.13
Ethnological hints afforded by the stimulants in use among savages and among the ancients. with discussion. 1878.06.11
Notes on some Cornish and Irish prehistoric monuments. with discussion. 1879.06.10
Surgery and superstition in Neolithic times. with discussion. 1881.02.08
On traces of commerce in prehistoric times. with discussion. 1884.02.12
Facts suggestive of prehistoric intercourse between East and West. 1884.11.25
On American shell-work and its affinities. with discussion. 1886.06.08
On tattooing. with discussion. 1888.01.10
The monument known as 'King Orry's grave' compared with tumuli in Gloucestershire. with discussion. 1889.01.08
Related Material Details
RAI Material
photo sent by her RAI 5146 Notes on mount - One of the old Kaffir chiefs still living 107 years of age; verso: Presented by Miss A.W. Buckland Dec. 1898. Kaffir. 107 years of age [handwritten in ink]
Other Material
Founding collection, PRM
