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Cambridge University financed a multidisciplinary expedition to the Torres Strait Islands in 1898, organized by Alfred Court Haddon and including a physician-anthropologist, William Rivers, as well as a linguist, a botanist, and other specialists.
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He also financed the education of two notable Black British figures of the age, Ignatius Sancho and Francis Williams, sending the latter to Cambridge University.
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Cambridge and expedition
The other members were Sidney Ray, C. G Seligman, and a young Cambridge graduate named Anthony Wilkin, who was asked to accompany the expedition as photographer.
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Arnold led a force of 1, 100 men from Cambridge, Massachusetts on the expedition through Maine towards Quebec shortly after Montgomery's departure from Ticonderoga.
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In rather more impoverished circumstances, Grant Watson was educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge ( B. A., 1909, with first-class honours in natural sciences ) after which, at 24, he joined social anthropologist Alfred Brown ( later Alfred Radcliffe-Brown ) and Daisy Bates on an ethnological expedition in Western Australia.
In 1898 he joined W. H. R. Rivers and William McDougall on the Cambridge anthropological expedition organised by Alfred Cort Haddon to the Torres Straits and Sarawak.
I want your advice on so many points, indeed I am in the clouds " and on 15 October went on to Cambridge to get advice from Henslow and Sedgwick on the task of organising the description and cataloguing of his collections accumulated from the Beagle expedition.
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After several years as a physician and pathologist, he volunteered his services to the 1898 Cambridge University expedition to the Torres Strait.
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At one point along the drive from Kugluktuk to Cambridge Bay, the Moon-1 partially fell through a lead ( crack in the sea-ice ), but was ultimately rescued by the expedition team.
Cambridge and Torres
The people of the Torres Strait have a unique indigenous culture, which has been the centre for anthropological work completed by Cambridge Universities, Alfred Haddon in 1898 and Australia's Margaret Lawrie in 1960-1973.
In 1898-1899 the Torres Strait Islands were visited by the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition led by Alfred Cort Haddon.
The gesture language of the Eastern Islanders, in " Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits.
The gesture language of the Western Islanders, in " Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits.
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