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IN Spencer's “Last Journey”(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1931), Plate II, will be seen the reproduction of a photograph of Moseley's 1884 biology class at Oxford. The strikingly handsome young man at the very back of the group—he may be distinguished by the rabbit that he is holding in his hand—is Henry Balfour; Baldwin Spencer, Bourne, Hickson, Roth, and other contemporaries also figuring there. That was a momentous year for Balfour, because Moseley induced him, together with Spencer, to help to arrange the collections just then bestowed on the University by General P. H. Rivers at the instance of his friend Tylor. Nine years later, Balfour was appointed curator of the Museum that had meanwhile been fitted out to house and display the rapidly increasing array of ethnological material; and for the forty-six years to come presided, more or less despotically, over the destinies of a treasure-house henceforth filled to bursting point with the spoil of the primitive world.
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MARETT, R. Prof. Henry Balfour, F.R.S. Nature 143, 291 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143291a0
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