Record ID:
36508281 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18540206
  • England
Death:
  • 19301104
Occupations:
  • anthropologist
Used for:
  • Edge Partington, James, 1854-1930
  • Partington, James Edge-, 1854-1930
Notes:
  • James Edge-Partington was born in Manchester in 1854 and educated at Rugby, later studying law and beginning a career as a solicitor. As an anthropologist and authority on Pacific ethnology, his collected materials included items of the peoples of the Pacific and Australasian regions. He was a long serving member of the Royal Anthropology Institute and volunteered at the ethnological department of the British Museum. Edge-Partington died in 1930 and his collections were donated to the British, Australian and Auckland museums.
  • WWW Wikipedia, 18/10/2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Edge_Partington
  • Cook's voyages illustrated by specimens in the Cook collection in the British Museum, 1900
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1592261
  • 000001516065
  • abv03839207
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX27547
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • kin