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| death_date = 1916
| address = Wick, Caithness
| occupation = educator<br />archaeologist<br />museum work<br />editor
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1865.10.18
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL, AI Local Secretary
| left = 1881.04 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
}}
== Notes ==
A5 7 Joseph Anderson (ASL Local Secretary, Orkney Islands), John O’Groats Journal Office, Wick, 7 Apr. 1865 – proofs of Report [on ancient remains of Caithness]; skeletal material sent from Kettleburn and the Camster cairn; see JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxi-vi, cxxxix-clxx; and ‘Report on excavations in Caithness cairns, conducted for the Anthropological Society of London by Messrs J. Anderson and R.I. Shearer, in 1866’ by Joseph Anderson, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 216-42; and p. 243, ‘Note on a skull from the cairn of Get, Caithness, discovered by Joseph Anderson’ by C. Carter Blake<br /> A5/8 Ibid., 28 Sep. – Mr Dunnet’s relics sent to ASL; mound near Keiss Bay similar to Birkle Hill; excavating cairn at Camster<br /><br /> 9 Ibid., 3 Apr. 1866 – doubts as to Samuel Laing’s reliability on the Keiss site, 8 pp.; see ‘On some ancient shell-mounds and graves in Caithness’, JASL, 1864, pp. xx-xxxviii in Anthrop. Rev. vol. 3, 1865<br /><br /> 10 Ibid., 11 Apr. – despatch of skull described by Dr Banks; skull and pelvis sent; hopes to obtain proofs of articles in John O’Groats Journal<br /><br /> 11 Ibid., 12 May – corrects an error in his ‘Report’<br /><br /> 12 Ibid., 20 June – acknowledges £10 grant; outlines possible future plans (letter incomplete)<br /><br /> 13 Ibid., 13 Aug. – acknowledges proofs of his ‘Report’; John Cleghorn and R.I. Shearer expecting copies of the J. Anthrop. Soc. London containing their Keiss papers; skulls not yet sent. 6 pp. see ‘A new reading of shell mounds and graves in Caithness’ and ‘On human remains at Keiss’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxix-Catalogued, clvii-clxiii respectively <br /><br /> 14 Ibid., 18 Aug. – proofs sent<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
He was born at Arbroath in 1832...Joseph received<br />his earliest education in the parish school of St Vigeans, and in 1844 went to the newly-founded<br />Arbroath Educational Institution. From 1852 to 1856 he taught in the East Free School, Arbroath,<br />and in the latter year married Jessie Dempster...At the time of his marriage he was living in Union Street,<br />Arbroath, but in the same year (1856) he removed to Constantinople, where he taught in the<br />English School at Hasskeui until 1859, returning to Scotland in 1860 to become editor of the<br />Wick-based John-of-Groats Journal. Whether or not as a consequence of contact in Turkey<br />with remains of Classical antiquity, on his return to Scotland he embarked on his archaeological<br />career, residence in Wick permitting him to study prehistoric remains in Caithness and to<br />excavate some of the local chambered cairns in association with the Anthropological Society<br />of London. His work in this field must have given convincing proof of his capacities, as<br />in 1866 the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland nominated him a Corresponding Member,<br />and in 1869 appointed him Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities and its own Assistant-Secretary and Editor of its Proceedings.2 The last of these posts he retained until the<br />year of his death (1916), but the two former he demitted in 1913.<br />
== Publications ==
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== Related Material Details ==
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various letters A5
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