William Bollaert

William Bollaert FRGS, Corr. Mem. Univ. Chile, of the Amer. and Ethno. Socs. London, New York
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Born	1807
Died	1876
Residence	21A Hanover Square W [1862] 36 Weymouth St, Portland Place [1872]
Occupation	literary chemist geographer ethnologist
Society Membership membership ESL Corresponding member ASL Ordinary Fellow ASL Foundation Fellow AI ordinary fellow, corresponding member left 1870.04.19 resigned ASL 1876 deceased elected_ESL 1862.04.15 elected_AI 1862 elected_ASL 1863 societies Royal Geographical Society Ethnological Society, New York

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Office Notes

ASL Council 1863 [1st and new July] Member [1st list] [2nd list]
ASL Council 1864 Member
ASL Council 1864 Hon. Secretary [list 1865.03.06]
ASL Council 1865 Hon. Secretary
ASL Council 1866 Hon. Secretary
ASL Council 1867 Member

House Notes

ESL 1853.02.03 presents a Peruvian skull
1870.04.19 A letter of resignation from Mr Wm Bollaert having been read, its consideration was deferred.
1870.05.03 The resignation of Mr Wm Bollaert was accepted.
Memb. Univ. of Chile [1872]
1876.12.11 death noted
JAI Vol. 6 (1877) p. 510 biographical sketch

Notes From Elsewhere

BOLLAERT, WILLIAM (1807–1876). William Bollaert, writer, chemist, geographer, and ethnologist

Publications

External Publications

Antiquarian, Ethnological and Other Researches in New Granada, Ecuador, Peru and Chile (1860); a translation entitled The Expedition of Pedro de Ursa and Lope de Aguirre in Search of Eldorado and Amagua in 1560–1 (1861); and The Wars of Succession in Portugal and Spain, from 1826 to 1840 (1870). He also wrote an "Essay on Salt," which won him a bronze medal from the Society of Arts in 1853. Despite his prolific publication, his writing about the Texas years was limited to a few scattered articles published in popular journals. His original "Texas Manuscript," consisting of six diaries and two volumes of journals, was purchased in 1902 by Edward E. Ayer and presented nine years later to the Newberry Library in Chicago. In 1956 editors W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler published the original manuscript under the title William Bollaert's Texas.

House Publications

ESL
On the tribes of Texas. Contributed on condition of being printed. - sent to Edinburgh for insertion in Jameson's Journal July 1850. read 10 apr 1850
On the N. American Indians. Promised Sep. 1850
Observations on the Indians of Southern Peru and on some Indian remains. Read 12 may 1852. Prof Jameson declines to insert in Edinburgh Phil. Journal on account of length (aug. 1852)
On the Indians of South Peru with remarks on the Incas
On an idol human head of the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador – by William Bollaert & Don Ramon de Silva Ferro
On some ancient Indian antiquities

ASL
on the population of America read 21 apr 1863. Published
on the palaeography of the New World Read 3 may 1864
on the astronomy of the Red Man of the New World Printed in Memoirs oct 1864 Read 15 nov 1864
On the Alleged Introduction of Syphilis from the New World.

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University of Oxford, Bodleian Library