GB 0402 WMS - STRONG, Dr Walter Mersh (1873-1946)

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GB 0402 WMS 1905-1906 Collection level 1 file Strong , Walter Mersh , 1873-1946 , geographer and medical administrator

Born, England, 1873; educated, Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1892-1903; St Thomas's Hospital, London; member of the Royal College of Surgeons; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1903; joined the Daniells anthropological expedition to British New Guinea to investigate cancer, 1903; assistant resident magistrate at Kairuku, Central Division, 1904; resident magistrate of North Eastern Division of Papua, 1908; led investigation on dysentery among Papuan labourers, 1912; chief medical health and quarantine officer, [1919]; implemented a programme for training Papuans as medical assistants, 1933-1935; retired, 1938; died, 1946.

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Papers of Walter Mersh Strong, 1905-1906, comprising notes on secondary positions, notebook containing maps, language notes, bearings and positions, Mafulu to Kambodi, New Guinea, 1905 and two mapping books, New Guinea, 1905-1906.

One observation file.

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

English

Collection level description available in the Foyle Reading Room.

RGS Correspondence Block 1921-1930.

Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Australian Dictionary of Biography.

ISAD(G) ed, 2, name authority NRA.

1 March 2001; May 2008. Asia and the Pacific Cartography Geographical exploration Geography New Guinea Strong , Walter Mersh , 1873-1946 , geographer and medical administrator Surveying

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Papers of Walter Mersh Strong, 1905-1906, comprising notes on secondary positions, notebook containing maps, language notes, bearings and positions, Mafulu to Kambodi, New Guinea, 1905 and two mapping books, New Guinea, 1905-1906.

One observation file.

Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.

Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.

• Engels

• Latijn

English

RGS Correspondence Block 1921-1930.

Collection level description available in the Foyle Reading Room.

ISAD(G) ed, 2, name authority NRA.

• Engels