Bishop Museum Visiting Professor to Yale

The affiliation between Bishop Museum and Yale University whereby the Director of the Museum was appointed from the Yale Faculty, led to the Museum reciprocating by financing a visiting lecturer to Yale, who had some practical knowledge of the Pacific area in anthropology or the natural sciences. Yale gave the lecturer the status of a full professor on the faculty during his term of appointment. The academic year at Yale commences in September and ends in May of the following year. The first appointment was for the academic year of 1931-1932. The following list gives the Visiting Professors and their field experience in the Pacific area:

• 1931-32. Richard C. Thurnwald, Dr.jur., Professor of Ethnology, Race Psychology, and Sociology at the University of Berlin; field work in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in anthropology.

• 1932-33. Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), D.S.O., M.D., Ch.B. (N.Z.), Ethnologist on Bishop Museum staff; Bishop Museum expedition to Samoa and the Cook Islands.

• 1933-34. Peter H. Buck, reappointed.

• 1934-35. Carl Skottsberg, Ph.D., Professor of Botany at University of Upsala' and Director of Botanical Gardens at Goteborg, Sweden; Bishop Museum Fellow, 1922-23; field work in Hawaii, Easter Island, and Juan Fernandez in botany.

• 1935-36. E. S. C. Handy, Ph.D. (Harvard), Ethnologist on Bishop Museum staff; Bayard Dominick Expedition to the Marquesas, Bishop Museum Expedition to the Society Islands, field work in Hawaii and Samoa.

• 1936-37. E. S. C. Handy, reappointed.

• 1937-38. Charles G. Seligman, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Ethnology at University of London; member of Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits and Borneo; Daniels Expedition to New Guinea.

• 1938-39. Alfred Métraux, Ph.D. (Paris), member Franco-Belgian Expedition to Easter Island; Bishop Museum Fellow, 1936-37 in anthropology.

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• 1939-40. Harold St. John, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of Botany at University of Hawaii, Botanist on Bishop Museum staff; member of Mangarevan Expedition to southeastern Polynesia.

• 1940-41. Bronislaw Malinowski, Ph.D., D.Sc, Professor of Anthropology at University of London; member of Robert Mond Anthropological Expedition to New Guinea and northwest Melanesia.

• 1941-42. Bronislaw Malinowski, reappointed.