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'''Northcote Whitridge Thomas'''
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AI Council 1900 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1901 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1905 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member
=== House Notes ===
1900.10.23 Assistant Secretary. The appointment of Mr N.W. Thomas MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Assistant Secretary and Librarian, on the conditions specified in the Report of the Officers, was confirmed<br /><br />Proposed as ordinary fellow by E.S. Hartland; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1904.10.05<br />Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris<br />death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1868-1936) was the first British Government Anthropologist to work in the West African counties of present-day Nigeria and Sierra Leone. He made a remarkable contribution to European knowledge of the Igbo and Edo speaking peoples and their lands, across the fields of cultural anthropology, botany, music and linguistics. <br /><br />[Paul Basu is an authority on him]<br /><br /><br /><br />