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Roth was a modest man, his work in anthropology was very largely based on the fieldwork of other men, but he had a talent for collating information and records, and his volumes on the Tasmanian aborigines and the natives of Sarawak and North Borneo were standard books. Roth's work has not been fully
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Gorman, A.C. 2008 The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification. In Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson (eds) The Roth Family: Anthropology and Colonial Administration, pp 93–103, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek
181:, was privately printed. His health was not robust and in August 1924 he resigned from the museum, but continued to help in its work when his health permitted. Roth died on 12 May 1925 and was survived by his wife (Nancy Harriette, 127:, a careful and able gathering together of the available information relating to a vanished race. A second edition appeared in 1899. In 1896 Roth brought out another important book, 142:), largely based on the manuscript of Hugh Brooke Low. He spent much time in a wide range of ethnological studies and many of his papers were published in scientific journals. 153:, then in a very run-down condition. Roth soon improved the museum, and in 1912 was appointed half-time keeper and later on he worked full-time on the museum. Roth published 379: 374: 85: 286: 235: 203: 369: 314: 109: 199: 173:, appeared in 1910 (again with Truslove and Hanson). Around this time he began publishing a long series of 240: 339: 57: 281: 92:) commissioned to investigate the Queensland sugar industry by English investors. Roth settled at 117: 32:(3 February 1855 – 12 May 1925) was an English-born anthropologist and museum curator, active in 253: 116:
for 1 April 1884, subsequently returned to England, and in 1888 was established in business at
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for July 1925. Henry Ling Roth's collection of books was acquired by the
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Sketches and Reminiscences from Queensland, Russia and Elsewhere
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and remained there until December 1877. Shortly afterwards his
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appreciated; a list of his publications will be found in
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notes, of which 23 numbers eventually appeared. In 1916
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In June 1900 Roth was appointed honorary curator of the
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Notes on the Agriculture and Peasantry of Eastern Russia
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The Discovery and Settlement of Port Mackay, Queensland
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In 1878 Roth went to Australia (preceding his brothers
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Australia
London
Austrian
University College School
German Empire
British Guiana
Russian Empire
Reuter Emerich Roth
Walter Edmund Roth
Mackay
Queensland
Royal Society of New South Wales
The Brisbane Courier
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Tasmania
Sarawak
North Borneo
Truslove and Hanson
Bankfield Museum
Yorkshire
Bankfield Museum
library
University of Manchester




Roth, Henry Ling (1855 - 1925)
Australian Dictionary of Biography

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