Herbert Spencer Dickey
| Herbert Spencer Dickey MD FZS FRGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1876 | ||||||||
| Died | 1948 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Central Ansonia, Azua, Dominican Republic Highland Falls, N.Y., USA [1917] | ||||||||
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1915.10.26 proposed by Thomas Whiffen, seconded by J. Edge Partington
1923.05.15 2. The Treasurer read the list of Fellows in arrears.
It was resolved to remove the names of the following from the list of Fellows: B.L. Garrad, D. Campbell, Dr F. Outes, H.S. Dickey, C.W. Hesling, F.R. Honter, P.R. Hough-Love, E.H. Cholmeley, S.H. Hillelson, J. Mackay, S, Ishii, V.K. Ramon Menon, W.R. Patterson.
Notes From Elsewhere
I haven’t had an adventure and don’t expect to have,” Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey wrote in 1929 about his full-time career exploring the unknown interior of South America. He criticized many of the much-publicized Amazon expeditions of the early 1900s as “sport,” not science. On his own travels on the eastern side of the Andes, he made contact with an unknown tribe, witnessed a Jivaro head-shrinking ceremony and searched for the source of the Orinocco River, all the while minimizing “real danger.” Partly sponsored by Gorge Gustav Heye and the Museum of the American Indian, he brought back some of the finest items still on display at the NMAI. [... more. James Ring Adams]
In September, 1911, Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey of New York introduced himself to Roger Casement in a hotel bar in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Casement was returning to the Amazon and invited Dickey to accompany him [Irish Times]
Publications
External Publications
The Misadventures of a Tropical Medico
My Jungle Book Hardcover – 1932
by Herbert Spencer Dickey (Author)
House Publications
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Museum of the American Indian