Henry Balfour
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Henry Balfour FRS was a British archaeologist, and first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum
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He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association
, the Folklore Society
, the Royal Geographical Society
. and a Fellow of the Royal Society
Pitt Rivers Museum
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building.The museum was...
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He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association
Museums Association
The Museums Association is a professional organisation based in London for museum professionals and museums in the United Kingdom.The association is the oldest museum association in the world and was started in 1889 by a small group of museums to protect the interests of museums and galleries...
, the Folklore Society
Folklore Society
The Folklore Society was founded in England in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief...
, the Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
. and a Fellow of the Royal Society
Works
- The Evolution of Decorative Art, Rivington, Percival & Co., 1893
- The natural history of the musical bow: a chapter in the developmental history of stringed instruments of music. Primitive types, Clarendon, 1899