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Anne Walbank Buckland<br />she and Mrs Carey Hobson both members of the Royal Colonial Institute. Mrs C-B wrote books for Religious tract society, including stories of south africa - Miss Buckland sent AI picture of 100 yr old kaffir<br /><br />Anne W Buckland was born Malmesbury, Wiltshire about 1832. She may have gone to Netherbury, Dorset because there is a 1851 census entry for a governess of 19 years with her name. At the age of 29, in the 1861 census, she is living at 6 Beaufort Buildings, Walcot, Bath with her aunt Elizabeth Buckland (age 50) and a couple of servants. At 39 and 49 years old, she is at the same Bath address, according to the census. Post-1871 census, she moved to London and died at 5, Beaumont-crescent, West Kensington, London<br /><br />1881 Census - Anne is described as a Dividends Student, Guilford Street, London (Not far from the RAI)<br /><br />Edinburgh Evening News (syndicated article in lots of newspapers across the UK) July 7, 1896<br />£80 pension, civil list - Anne Walbank Buckland<br /><br />The Bath Chronicle Thursday March, 30 1899 Royal Literary & Scientific Institution Annual meeting:<br />'...The regret of the Committee should be received also on the loss by death of Miss Ann Walbanke Buckland, who, while residing in Bath, commenced the practical examination and studies of the light thrown on objects of antiquity by the habits and utensils now to be found among modern savage peoples, which since she left Bath for London have formed the subject of many papers to be found in the transactions of various learned societies. She was the author of a recent romance called "Margery Moore", wherein we are presented some well drawn pictures of Bath life in the last century. In recognition of her services in the arrangement of our museum, you elected her an honorary member of our Institution...'<br /><br />Probate <br />AWB Died January 4, 1899<br />Estate £1318<br /><br />A brief bio about Anne W Buckland in this book - p.36:<br />Creese, Mary RS, (2000) 'Ladies in the Laboratory? American & British Women in Science 1800-1900' <br /><br />Anne Walbank Buckland, M.A.I. (1832-1899)[1] [2] was an anthropologist, ethnologist, and travel writer. She presented new ideas on mythology, symbolism and custom<br />Buckland's father, William Buckland, was a civil engineer and surveyor. The family lived in the rural hamlit of Bremilham, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England<br />Buckland was one of the first women to join The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland after it voted to admit women on March 9, 1875. She donated a photograph to the Institute, which was used by the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson to encourage and instruct members in collecting quality photographs for ethnological research.[6] In his 1899 address to members, the president of the institute remarked about Buckland, that after more than twenty years of scientific contributions, "No other lady in this country, has to my knowledge, done so much to popularize anthropology as was accomplished by our valued friend".[7]<br />Buckland also joined the British Association for the Advancement of Science[8] and was elected an Honorary Member of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI) on 23 March 1876 for her work in arranging the ‘Lockey Museum’ (the anthropological section of the museum). [9] [10]<br />Some of her ideas on mythology, symbolism and custom were contrary to fellow anthropologists at that time, including that agriculturists were the first to worship the moon, that this worship preceded that of the sun deity in Egypt, China and the East, and that it was metallurgists who originated worship of the sun and serpents.[3] She suggested, that based on the prominence given to the rabbit in artifacts of American sculptures and hieroglyphics, that either the Eastern hemisphere influenced ideas and customs of prehistoric society in America or vice versa.[3] Fritze[11] considered Buckland to be a "proto-hyper-diffusionist" who advanced the idea that aspects of ancient culture were dispersed or "diffused" to other cultures and continents by way of trade interactions and migration, rather than arising by coincidence. Later diffusionists, who built upon her work, became more Egyptocentric than she, such as Elliot Smith.[11]<br />Buckland published anthropological papers in Westminster Review and the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, many of which were the basis of oral presentations at scientific meetings. A collection of her scholarly essays, Anthropological Studies, was recognized internationally and added to the library of the US Bureau of Ethnology in 1883.[12<br />Great Britain added Buckland to its Civil List Pension, an annual monetary award in recognition of her scientific work.[13] She provided BRLSI with numerous artifacts for its collection, including several stone implements and weapons collected from Cape Flats, South Africa by Dr. Langham Dale. A contemporary of Buckland, Dale was among the first scholars to recognize and publish findings of prehistoric stone artifacts in southern Africa.[14] Artifacts associated with Buckland are also in the collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum,[15] including a Later Stone Age bored stone from the Cape of Good Hope.[14] Her 1893 book of old international recipes set in historical context is considered a classic culinary text,[16] continues to be reproduced, and is widely available.[17]<br /><br />