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Percy Amaury Talbot

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| first_name = Percy Amaury
| name = Talbot
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| image = File:Talbot,_Percy_Amaury.jpg
| birth_date = 1877
| death_date = 1945
| address = 67 Cambridge Mansions, Battersea Park, SW<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire [1906]<br />[and] Eke, near Calabar, S. Nigeria [1913]<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1915]
| occupation = botanist<br />anthropologist<br />explorer<br />political
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1905.12.07
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
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== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland, 1905.11.21<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 />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
In the shadow of the bush, 1912; <br />Life in southern Nigeria, 1923; <br />The peoples of southern Nigeria, 4 vols., 1926; Some Nigerian fertility cults, 1927; <br />Tribes of the Niger Delta, 1932<br />
=== House Publications ===

== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
census<br />prize named for him
=== Other Material ===
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