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Walter Baldwin Spencer

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Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (June 23, 1860 - July 14, 1929) was an English biologist and anthropologist.

Spencer was born at Stretford, Lancashire and studied natural science at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1887 he travelled to Australia to take up the position of professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne, a post he held until 1919. In 1894 he accompanied the Horn Expedition to central Australia as zoologist and photographer, and edited the reports of the expedition. In 1899 he became Honorary Director of the National Museum of Victoria.

His books include The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899), Guide to the Australian Ethnographical Collection (1901, 1922), The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (1904), Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (1914), The Arunta: a Study of a Stone Age People (1927) and Wanderings in Wild Australia (1928).

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