Maud Doria Haviland

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A blue fox documented in A Summer on the Yenesei 1914

Maud Doria Haviland (10 February 1889 – 3 April 1941) was an English ornithologist. She was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, married Harold Hulme Brindley, a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and died in Cambridge. Her great-grandfather, John Haviland, was a Professor of Anatomy and the first Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge to give regular courses in pathology and medicine.[1]

Haviland is the author of A Summer on the Yenesei,[2] where she narrates the experiences of an expedition on a trip down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914. The book was inspired the route traversed by Henry Seebohm (1832–1895) in 1877 as described in his Siberia in Asia,[3] and by H.L. Popham (1864–1943) in Notes of birds observed on the Yenesei River, Siberia, in 1895.[4]

During this journey, on which she was accompanied by Polish anthropologist Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886–1921), painter Dora Curtis and Henry Usher Hall of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876–1944), she wrote her impressions about nature and the birds,.

The more complete existing bibliographical references were published by T.S. Palmer (Treasurer of the American Ornithologists' Union) in 1943.[5] She was an active member of this association from 1920.

Wartime work[]

During World War One, Haviland was a member of the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service; for example, in 1917, she was the chauffeur for Dr Elsie Inglis during the latter's work in Romania. In the following year, she worked as a chauffeur for the French Red Cross in the Soissons-Paris Region.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "XXXIV.-Obituary". Ibis. 83 (4): 619–621. 2008-04-03. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1941.tb00658.x.
  2. ^ Maud Doria Haviland (1915). A Summer on the Yenesei: 1914. Arno Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-0-405-03081-9.
  3. ^ Seebohm, Henry The birds of Siberia; a record of a naturalist's visits to the valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei (1901), London, J. Murray
  4. ^ Popham, H. Leyborne (2008). "Notes on Birds observed on the Yenisei River, Siberia, in 1895". Ibis. 39: 89–108. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1897.tb01266.x.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b McAtee, W. L.; Palmer, T. S.; Saunders, Aretas A.; Fisher, A. K.; Mayr, Ernst (1943). "Obituaries". The Auk. 60 (1): 132–137. doi:10.2307/4079357. JSTOR 4079357.

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