Alexander MacTier Pirrie
| Alexander MacTier Pirrie MD | |||||||
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| Born | 1882 | ||||||
| Died | 1907 | ||||||
| Residence | Welcome Research Laboratories, Khartum | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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1907.02.12 nominated
death noted in the report of the council for 1907: The promising career of Dr. A. MacTier Pirrie was cut short at the early age of twenty-eight. Appointed a Carnegie Research Fellow of the University of Edinburgh he went to the Sudan to carry out anthropological investigations under the auspices of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, Khartum. In this work he was eminently successful, and he returned to this country in July with much important information and many valuable specimens and photographs. Unfortunately, he had contracted a virulent form of tropical fever to which he succumbed on November 12th. The notes which he has left are at present being arranged for publication, and his collection will also be made the subject of a report.
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Alexander Mactier Pirrie came to the Sudan in 1906 to work with the Wellcome Research Laboratories in Khartoum. In 1907 he made an expedition to Southern Sudan that took him as far as the Shilluk territory. He returned to Khartoum with a fever that turned out to be kala-azar: Pirrie died within months.
During the expedition Alexander Pirrie made a lot of photographs to illustrate his descriptions of Sudanese peoples. Although he never had the chance to journey to the Nuba Mountains, he did find some Nuba in Renk. His measurements and notes were worked out by David Waterston in a Report upon the Physical Characters of some of the Nilotic Negroid Types which was published in the Third Report of the Wellcome Laboratories (1908).