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THE curatorship of the Pitt-Rivers Museum in the University of Oxford, which has been vacant since the death of Dr. Henry Balfour earlier in the year, has been filled by the appointment of Thomas Kenneth Penniman, the appointment being for a period of seven years dating from October 1, 1939. Mr. Penniman is a member of Trinity College, Oxford, and holds the diploma in anthropology of the University of Oxford. He is the secretary of the Board of Anthropological Studies in the University, and is the author of a history of the progress in anthropological studies in the last hundred years, which in its introductory chapters traces the beginnings of anthropological observation, the work thus being a complete survey of the development of the science. Mr. Penniman was also joint editor with Dr. R. R. Marett of the correspondence of the late Sir Baldwin Spencer, the distinguished authority on the primitive tribes of central and northern Australia.
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T. K. Penniman. Nature 144, 701 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144701b0
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