Hugh Stannus Stannus

Includes a collection of glass plate negatives from work in Africa studying scarification and tattooing (see Stannus/04 for published work on this). In addition there are two sets of blood slides as well as the paper on scarification.

Hugh Stannus Stannus, consulting physician and specialist in tropical diseases was appointed Medical Officer to the King's African rifles in British Central Africa [Malawi] in 1905 and carried out research into various tropical diseases particularly pellagra and sleeping sickness. He made an intense study of anthropology and ethnology and published a monograph on the Wa-Yao people. He was elected FRCP in 1931. In 1914 he became principal medical officer of the Nyasa-Rhodesian forces operating in Southern German East Africa (Tanzania).

Copied from University of Dundee catalogue.

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Catalogued by Richard Meunier, Assistant Archivist, 2008.

University of Dundee archives, MS 49 Glass plate negatives 1905-c.1918 with contact prints; miscellaneous loose papers 1957. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, manuscript collections.

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