IDNO

LS.134770.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Selungs. Merguai Archipelago. 131.MA.6. LXXI. 6.
Headman & boat men, Canter [sic Cantor].

Place

SE Asia; Myanmar; Mergui Archipelago; Cantor [Burma]

Cultural Affliation

Selung

Named Person

Photographer

Rudrose Brown, Robert Neal

Collector / Expedition

Date

1906

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: R. N. Rudmose Brown B.Sc. (1907) The Mergui archipelago: Its people and products, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 23:9, 463-483. [JD 8/12/2016]

Bibliographical Reference: 'The Mergui Archipelago', By R.N. Rudmore Brown, Lecturer in Geography, Sheffield University, 1905 article from Travel Magazine. [Source: http://thailanddiveandsail.com/blogpost-3/, JD 8/16/2016]

Bibliographical Reference: 'The Sea Gipsies of Mergui. A scarce tribe of sea wanderers among whom the author spent some time researching for the Indian Government'. By Brown, R.N. Rudmore. Published by Wide World Magazine, 1908. (1908). [JD 8/16/2016]

Biographical Information: "Robert Neal Rudmose Brown (1879-1957), Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield from 1931 to 1945, and an authority on Polar studies, was born in London, 13th September 1879, and educated at Dulwich College, Aberdeen University and Montpellier University. He took pride in his Aberdonian and Scandinavian parentage, Rudmose being his mothers maiden name. His university training was in biology at Aberdeen (1896-1900), following which he found a post as assistant to the Professor of Botany at University College, Dundee, Patrick Geddes, from 1900-1902. ... in 1906 visited Burma to report to the Indian Government on the pearl oyster fisheries of the Mergui Archipelago. ...
In 1908 he was appointed the first head of the new Department of Geography at Sheffield University, which he served for 37 years, in 1924 establishing there an Honours course in Geography, retiring in 1945 as Emeritus Professor.
Rudmose Brown published many books and papers on Polar geography, though his textbook on Economic Geography, published in 1923, also became a standard reference work. His scholarship brought him wide academic recognition: President of Section E of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1927, a member of its Council 1933-1938; President of the Institute of British Geographers 1938 and 1939; member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society 1925-1928 and 1945-1946.
He died in Sheffield on the 27th of January 1957." [Source: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/brown, JD 8/12/2016]