Alfred William Howitt
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| Alfred William Howitt ScD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1830 | ||||||||
| Died | 1908 | ||||||||
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Sale, Gippsland, Victoria [1885] Secretary for Mines, Department of Mines, Melbourne, Victoria [1894] Metung, Victoria [1905] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
anthropologist explorer naturalist | ||||||||
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1884.06.10 proposed as Corresponding Member
proposed as Hon. Fellow 1902.12.09 for distinguished services to the ethnology of Australia
death noted in the report of the council for 1908: The death of Dr. A. W. Howitt has already been noticed in Man (1908, 45). His well-known works on the Australian aborigines were based on practical experience in the field commencing as early as 1860. In particular, his book on the Native Tribes of South-East Australia will remain a classic for students of anthropology.
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Alfred William Howitt (17 April 1830 – 7 March 1908) was an Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist
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his collections were sent to Baron von Mueller and are now in Melbourne.
