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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001503b.htm person Fison Lorimer AACR2 9 November 1832 29 December 1907 Place of Birth Barningham, Suffolk, England Place of Death Essendon, Victoria, Australia Anthropologist Minister of religion Missionary Lorimer Fison was a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji from 1863 to 1871 and from 1875 to 1884. During these periods he made pioneering studies of the Fijian people. Returning to Australia he turned he attention to Australia's indigenous people. Fison was the joint author with A.W. Howitt of "Kamilaroi and Kurnai" and maintained correspondence with American workers in his field. 1892 1892 Career position - President, Section F (Ethnology and Anthropology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Howitt, Alfred William (1830 - 1908) Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

President, Section F (Ethnology and Anthropology) 1892

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 'Fison, Lorimer', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Fison, Lorimer Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Selections From the Letters of Lorimer Fison...to Lewis Henry Morgan Stern, B. J. (ed) Selections From the Letters of Lorimer Fison...to Lewis Henry Morgan 1930 American Anthropologist 32 Journal Article: Lorimer Fison Brown, G. Lorimer Fison 1908 Asian Methodist Missionary Review February Edited Book: A Century of Victorian Methodism Benson, C. Irving A Century of Victorian Methodism Melbourne 1935 Book Section: Fison, Lorimer (1832-1907), Wesleyan missionary, anthropologist and journalist Stanner, W. E. H. Fison, Lorimer (1832-1907), Wesleyan missionary, anthropologist and journalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 175-176 Book: Southern anthropology: a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai Gardner, Helen and McConvell, Patrick Southern anthropology: a history of Fison and Howitt's <span style="font-style:italic">Kamilaroi and Kurnai</span> New York Palgrave Macmillan 2015 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Lorimer Fison - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Lorimer Fison - Records 1870 - 1881 Typescript copies of correspondence 1870-81, mainly related to ethnological matters consisting of 35 letters from Lewis Henry Morgan and American ethnologist, and letters from Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Andrew Mackenzie; Alexander Falconer; Spencer Baird; Mrs Watts; A.W. Howitt [42 items]. 42 letters