IDNO

P.6849.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Two light-haired Berbers nr. Tanger. Gadow.

Place

N Africa; Morocco; Tangiers; near Tanger

Cultural Affliation

Berber

Named Person

Photographer

Gadow, Hans (Dr)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa ?1895 - 1896

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Biographical Information: "Hans Friedrich Gadow [1855 - 1928] was born on 8th March 1855 in what was then Pomerania. Gadow's father was an Inspector of the Prussian Royal Forests, and Gadow’s childhood provided ready access to wild nature. Gadow received a very thorough German education in the natural sciences at the Universities of Frankfurt, Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin. ...
Shortly after he graduated, however, Gadow was first invited to visit at the British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum, by Albert Günther who was involved in the creation of the Catalogue of Birds. Gadow was at the Museum from 1880-1882. ... in 1882 [Gadow] took over from Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) as Strickland Curator in Cambridge. The Strickland Collection of birds, a major British collection, was presented first to Oxford and then to Cambridge by the widow of the influential naturalist H.E. Strickland (1811-1853) ... As Strickland Curator, he published the Catalogue of the Strickland Collection, and he participated in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, a monumental work on the natural history of Central America that reached 52 volumes. He had taken up the editorship of the well-known bird journal, The Ibis, in 1871. So, Gadow was joining a well-established Cambridge ornithological tradition. ...
Gadow travelled extensively, notably in Spain and Mexico, often accompanied by his English wife, Clara Maud Paget, whom he married in 1889, and who was the daughter of the eminent physician, Sir George Paget. Gadow wrote several lively books describing both the zoological and anthropological details of the journeys. The best known of these semi-popular books is probably In Northern Spain (1897). The Museum of Zoology benefited greatly from specimens brought back by Gadow from his travels.
[Source: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/alumni/biographies-of-zoologists/hans-gadow-1855-1928-prussian-morphology-meets-cambridge-zoology, JD 1/29/2018]

Date: In 1895 and 1896 Gadow and his wife made two journeys along northern Spain, from the Basque Country to Galicia. In 1897 Gadow published In Northern Spain, the book that gathered together the very interesting observations on geography, ethnography, and fauna and flora he had made. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Friedrich_Gadow, JD 1/29/2018]