Dr. A. C Haddon

Abstract

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Dr. A. C. Haddon, of Christ's College, Cambridge, and formerly reader in ethnology in the. University, on the attainment, on May 24, of the age of eighty years. Apart from his personal qualities, of which this is not the place to speak, Dr. Haddon's lifelong and unselfish devotion to scientific research have won him the admiration and respect of a wide circle; while his originality of thought and his scientific achievement hold a commanding position in anthropological studies, which has stood unchallenged for more than a generation. When in the course of his first visit to the Torres Straits he turned from zoology to the study of the native peoples, the technique of ethnological investigation in the field was in its infancy. The great expedition to the Torres Straits, which he organised later, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, under the auspices of the University of Cambridge, has been an inspiration and a model for all the more important of the expeditions of ethnological investigation which have followed.