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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Melville William
| name = Hilton-Simpson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FRGS
| image = File:Hilton-Simpson,_Melville_William.jpg
| birth_date = 1881
| death_date = 1938
| address = Sole Street House, Faversham, Kent<br />The Museum, Oxford [1911]<br />Sole Street House, Faversham; 322 Banbury Road, Oxford [1921]<br />Sole Street House, Faversham; 13 Portland Road, Oxford [1923]
| occupation = traveller<br />collector<br />ethnographer<br />museum work
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1906.06.14
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1938 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Zoological Society<br />Royal Belgian Geographical Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1923 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland 1906.06.01<br />1932 Rivers Memorial Medal<br />1938.03.22 death noted<br />Obituary Man June 1938 item 91. He died on the 17th March 1938<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Melville W. Hilton-Simpson was a traveller, collector and ethnographer who travelled extensively in North and Central Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. A Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, he died in 1936 [actually it was in 1938]<br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Algiers and beyond, 1906; Among the hill folk of Algeria, 1921; Land and peoples of the Kasai, 1911<br />Arab medicine & surgery; a study of the healing art in Algeria<br />Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo <br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Photographs; journal<br />A51/2/20 details of bequest
=== Other Material ===
PRM: papers
| first_name = Melville William
| name = Hilton-Simpson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = FRGS
| image = File:Hilton-Simpson,_Melville_William.jpg
| birth_date = 1881
| death_date = 1938
| address = Sole Street House, Faversham, Kent<br />The Museum, Oxford [1911]<br />Sole Street House, Faversham; 322 Banbury Road, Oxford [1921]<br />Sole Street House, Faversham; 13 Portland Road, Oxford [1923]
| occupation = traveller<br />collector<br />ethnographer<br />museum work
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1906.06.14
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1938 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Royal Geographical Society<br />Zoological Society<br />Royal Belgian Geographical Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1923 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland 1906.06.01<br />1932 Rivers Memorial Medal<br />1938.03.22 death noted<br />Obituary Man June 1938 item 91. He died on the 17th March 1938<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Melville W. Hilton-Simpson was a traveller, collector and ethnographer who travelled extensively in North and Central Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. A Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, he died in 1936 [actually it was in 1938]<br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Algiers and beyond, 1906; Among the hill folk of Algeria, 1921; Land and peoples of the Kasai, 1911<br />Arab medicine & surgery; a study of the healing art in Algeria<br />Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo <br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Photographs; journal<br />A51/2/20 details of bequest
=== Other Material ===
PRM: papers