Collectors: Individuals and Institutions (edited by Anthony Shelton, 2001)

This volume was part of series titled 'Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture' published by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and The Museu Antropológico da Universidade Coimbra. Included are the following papers: Revealing Histories: A cross-cultural reading of Franklin Motor Expedition to Canada (Alison K. Brown); The North American Indian Collection in the Hastings Museum: E.H. Blackmore's and C. Sheridan's Contribution (Colin and Betty Taylor); Mary Edith Durham, 1863-1944: Traveller and Collector in the Balkans (Philippa Mackenzie); Consolidation and Renewal: Otto Samson and the Horniman Museum (Fabiola Martinez Rodriguez); 'Curiosity', 'Art' and 'Ethnography' in the Chinese Collections of John Henry Gray (Judith Green); The Translation of Objects R. and M. Davidson and the Friends' Foreign Mission Association, China, 1890-1894 (Nicky Levell); Sir Merton Russell-Cotes and His Japanese Colection: The Importance and Impact of an Unplanned Trip to Japan in 1885 (Shaun Garner); Collecting the Self in the Idiom of Science: Charles Hose and the Ethnography og Sarawak (Brian Durrans); In the Wake of Captain Cook: The Travels of G.A. Thomson, 1799-1886 (Winifred Glover); The Universe of Miss Jeanne Walschot. Belgian Collector and Dealer of 'Congoliana', 1896-1977 (Boris Wastiau); Assembling and Arranging: The Pitt Rivers' Collections, 1850-2000 (Alison Petch); Illustrating Evolution: Alfred Cort Haddon and the Horniman Museum, 1901-1915 (Nicky Levell); The Ethnographic Collections of the Horniman Museum: A Descriptive Survey (Anthony Shelton); The Ethnography Collection of the Manchester Museum, 1900-2000 (George Bankes); Speaking Through Speciments: The Early Collections of Ipswich Museum (David Jones); and Relocating Each Other: Connecting Discontinuities at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (Len Pole).