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'''Percy Amaury Talbot'''
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=== House Notes ===
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland, 1905.11.21<br />death reported in Report of the Council 1945-46<br />obituary in Man 1946<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Percy Amaury Talbot (* 26. June 1877 ; † 28. December 1945 in Cheltenham ) was a range of interests and British officials, botanist, anthropologist and explorer . He was in the service of the Nigerian Political Service. <br />As ethnographic classics applies his book In the Shadow of the Bush (1912). <br />The author traveled with his wife Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1871-1916) extensively in Oban District of Nigeria Southern and part of Cameroon , to the people of the Ekoi to study as well as the natural history of the area. The work reported on religion, the secret society Egbo , Juju , status of women, birth practices, divination , sorcery, mourning ceremonies, war, government, folklore, etc. with detailed appendices on taboos, clubs, anthropometry, spelling, grammar, vocabularies, Botany, Zoology , Mineralogy, meteorology and geography<br /><br /><br /><br />