Wood Jones, Frederic

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - AnthropologyGenderMaleHistoryProfessor Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954) also referred to as Wood-Jones, studied at the London Hospital Medical College, later University of London (B.Sc., 1903; M.B., B.S., 1904; D.Sc. 1910). He assisted Grafton Elliott Smith on the Egyptian Archaeological Survey of Nubia in 1907 before obtaining a series of academic posts in Britain. He was recommended to and accepting the ‘Elder’ Chair of Anatomy at the University of Adelaide which he commenced in 1920.

He was active in the Royal Society of South Australia and participated in preliminary expeditions with the Board for Anthropological Research (which was official founding in December 1926). Jones took up a Rockefeller Professorship in Physical Anthropology at the University of Hawaii (1927-1930), then Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne (1930-1937).

In March 1934, he undertook a physical anthropological survey of the ‘full blooded’ Aboriginal population of Lake Tyers Aboriginal Reserve, Victoria, with the assistance of Dr Edward Ford and Donald Thomson. See: ‘The Aborigines of Victoria’ Handbook for Victoria Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Jan 1935, pp136-142

In January - February 1935 he took part in the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research expedition to Lady Julia Percy Island, Victoria to study birds. See: Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research, No. 1. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol 49. Pt. II, 1937.

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