biography
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Spencer, Sir (Walter) Baldwin
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| (1860–1929)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist and biologist, born in Stretford, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became professor of biology at the University of Melbourne (1887). In 1894 he joined Horn's expedition to C Australia where, with Francis James Gillen, he began a collaborative study of the local Aboriginal tribes, resulting in The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899), the popular account Wandering in the Wilds of Australia (1928), and other works. He was knighted in 1916. |
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