Spencer's Scientific Correspondence with Sir J.G. Frazer and Others. Edited by R.R. Marett and T.K. Penniman
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1932.
Octavo, xii (last blank), 174, [1] (colophon) pages with a map and 2 illustrations.
Cloth a little marked; new endpapers; 'School of Oriental and African Studies, London' stamp on the verso of the title page and the last page of text, and a 'SOAS Library Withdrawn' stamp on the title page; a very good copy (internally excellent).
'The greater part of this book consists of the correspondence between Sir Baldwin Spencer and Sir James Frazer ... [and] these provide a nearly continuous account of the progress in method and discovery made by the Explorer during his three great Australian Expeditions'. These expeditions were conducted in conjunction with Francis James Gillen, Spencer's '"most important discovery" according to Professor Elliot Smith'. The introduction further states that 'The news of Gillen's death reached Spencer while he was camping on the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory. Through the kindness of Gillen's son, we are able to quote a part of Spencer's letter to Mrs. Gillen, dated June 18, 1912'. Spencer died on a field trip to Tierra del Fuego in July 1929.
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