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Taylor, Alfred Joseph (1849 - 1921)

Born
24 March 1849
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
9 October 1921
Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Librarian, Phrenologist and Public servant

Summary

Alfred Joseph Taylor, public librarian of Hobart Library and close associate of Morton Allport, gave a report to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science on the Silver Fields at Mount Zeehan, Tasmania (1890). "He was a phrenologist and ran a small private museum . . . He had two skulls taken from [Tasmanian] First People, one with part of the face still attached, which suggested the source was Dr James Scott" (Pybus 2024 page 292).

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1888
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

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Annette Alafaci

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