Author:William Halse Rivers Rivers

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William Halse Rivers Rivers
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English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I; commonly referred to as W. H. R. Rivers

Works

1888

A case of spasm of the muscles of the neck causing protrusion of the head (St. Bart's Hosp. Repts., XXIV., pp. 249-51)

1889

Abstract of a paper on 'Delirium and its allied conditions', read before the Abernethian Society (St. Bart's Hosp. Repts. XXV., pp. 279-80)

1891

A case of treadler's cramp (Brain, XIV., pp. 110-11)
Abstract of paper on 'Hysteria', read before the Abernethian Society (St. Bart's Hosp. Repts., XXVII, pp. 285-6)

1893

Abstract of paper on 'Neurasthenia', read before the Abernethian Society (St. Bart's Hosp. Repts., XXIX., p. 350)

1894

Review of O. Külpe's 'Grundriss d. Psychologie auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt' (Mind, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 11, pp. 413-17)
A Modification of Aristotle's Experiment (Mind, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 12, Oct., 1894, pp. 583-584)

1895

Review of H. Maudsley's 'Pathology of Mind', and E. Kräpelin's 'Psychologische Arbeiten' (Mind, New Series, vol. 4, pp. 400-3)
Paper on 'Experimental psychology in relation to insanity', read before the Medico-Psychol. Soc. G.B & I. (Abstract in Lancet, LXXIII., p. 867)
Review of T. Zichen's 'Psychiatrie f. Aertze und Studierende' (Brain, XVIII., pp. 418-21)
On binocular colour mixture (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., VIII., pt. 5, pp. 273-7)
On the apparent size of objects (Mind, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 17, Jan., 1896, pp. 71-80)

1896

'Observations on mental fatigue and recovery', paper read before the Medico-Psychol. Soc. G.B & I. (Abstract in Lancet, LXXIV., p. 711)
On mental fatigue and recovery (J. Mental Science,XLII., pp. 525-9)
Über Ermüdung und Erholung, with E. Kräpelin (Psychol. Arbeit, I., pp, 627-78)

1897

The photometry of coloured paper (Journ. of Physiol., XXII., pp. 137-45)

1899

Contributions to comparative psychology from the Torres Straits and New Guinea (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1899, p. 486, and J.R.A.I., N.S., II., pp. 219-222) (With W. McDougall and C.S Myers)
Two new departures in anthropological method (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 789-90)

1900

The senses of primitive man (Abstract in Science, N.S., XI., pp. 740-1, and trans. 'Über die Sinne d. primitiven Menschen'in Umschau, XXV.)
'Textbook of physiology', 6th ed. revd., Part IV., 'The Senses', by Sir M. Foster assisted by W.H.R Rivers
Article on 'Vision', in Schäfer's 'Text-book of physiology'
A genealogical method of collecting social and vital statistics (J.R.A.I., XXX., pp. 74-82)
Report of Committee on mental and physical deviations from the normal among children in... schools (with others). (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900, pp. 461-6)

1901

The measurement of visual illusion (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1901, p. 818)
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. II., Physiology and Psychology, pt. I., Introductory, and Visin, pp. vi., 140. Cambridge
On erythropsia (Trans. Ophthal. Soc. Lond., XXI., pp. 296-305)
Primitive orientation (Folk-Lore, XII., pp. 210-12)
The colour vision of the Eskimo (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., XI., pp. 143-9)
Primitive colour vision R. Inst. Lect. (Pop. Sci. Mthly., LIX., pp. 44-58)
Review of W.A. Nagel's 'Farbensinn d. Tiere' (Brain, XXIV., pp. 663-4)
Review of A. Lehmann's 'Körperliche Äusserungen psychischer Zustände' (Mind, N.S., X., pp. 402-4)
The colour vision of the natives of Upper Egypt (J.A.I., XXXI., pp. 229-47)
Colour vision: reviwes of Holden and Bosse's 'The order of development of colour perception and of colour preference in the child' (Man, I., pp. 107-9)
On the function of the maternal uncle in Torres Straits (Man, Vol. 1, 1901, pp. 171-172)
On the functions of the son-in-law and brother-in-law in Torres Straits (Man, Vol. 1, 1901, p. 172)

1902

Report of Committee on pigmentation survet of the schoolchildren of Scotland (with others) (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1902, pp. 352-3; 1903, p. 415)
Welsh words for colour, (Atheneaum, London, 1830, 3874, 1902: Jan., p.119)
Note on the sister's son in Samoa (Folk-Lore, XIII., p.199)

1903

Observations on the vision of the Uralis and Sholagas (Madras Govt. Mus. Bull., V., pp. 1-16)
Toda Kinship and Marriage; the Toda dairy (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1903, pp. 810-12)
The psychology and sociology of the Todas and the tribes of Southern India (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, LXXIII., pp. 415-16)
The funeral of Sunerani (Eagle, XXIV., pp. 337-43)

1904

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. V: Genealogical tables; Kinship; Totemism (with A.C Haddon); The regulation of marriage; Personal names
Note on R.C. Punnett's 'On the proportion of the sexes among the Todas' (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., XII., pp. 487-8)
Toda prayer (Folk-Lore, XV., pp. 166-81)
Some funeral customs of the Todas; On the senses of the Todas (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1904, pp. 726, 749-50)
Investigations of the comparative visual acuity of savages and of civilised people (Brit. Med. J., 1904, II., p. 1297)
'Acuité visuelle des peuples civillisées et des sauvages' (Ann. d'Oeul., CXXXII., pp. 455- )

1905

Observations on the senses of the Todas (Brit. J. of Psych., I., pp. 321-96)
The afferent nervous system from a new aspect; with H. Head and J. Sherren (Brain, XXVIII., pp. 99-115)

1906

The Todas. Map, illus., 22cm. London
Demonstration of new apparatus for psychological tests (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., XIII., p. 392)
Report on the psychology and sociology of the Todas and other Indian tribes (Proc. Roy. Soc. B., 77, pp. 239-41)
The astronomy of Torres Straits Islanders; A survival of twofold origin (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1906, pp. 701-2)

1907

The marriage of cousins in India (J. R. Asiatic Soc., PP. 611-40)
Report of a Sub-Committee appointed to advise on the publication of a new edition of 'Notes and Queries on Anthropology' (with others)
The action of caffeine on the capacity for muscular work (Journ. Physiol., XXXVI., pp. 34-47)
Review of Sex and Society by W. I. Thomas (Man, Vol. 7, 1907, pp. 111-111)
On the origin of the classificatory system of relationships (Anthrop. Essays pres. to E.B Taylor, pp. 309-23. Oxford)
Report of Committee on anthropometric investigation in the British Isles (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1907, pp. 354-68)
Morgan's Malayan system of relationship; Some sociological definitions (Rep. Brit. Assoc., LXXVII., p. 640, and pp. 653-5)
Review of C.F Jayne's 'String Figures' (Folk-Lore, XVIII., pp. 112-16)

1908

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. VI (Eastern Islanders): Genealogies; Kinship; Personal names; The regulation of marriage; Social organisation
The influence on alcohol and other drugs on fatigue (Croonian Lects., R. Coll. Physicians, 1906). London: E. Arnold, pp. 144
A human experiment in nerve division (with H. Head) (Brain, XXXI., pp. 323-450)
The illusion of compared horizontal and verticle lines (with G.D. Hicks), and The influence of small doses of alcohol on the capacity for muscular work (with H.N. Webber) (Brit. J. of Psychol., II., pp. 252-5)

1909

Review of B. Thomson's 'The Fijians' (Folk-Lore, XX., pp. 252-5)
'Some notes on magical practices in the Banks' Islands,' a paper read before the Folklore Soc. (Folk-Lore, XXI., p. 2)
Totemism in Polynesia and Melanesia (J.R.A.I, XXXIX., pp. 156-80)

1910

The genealogical method of anthropological inquiry (Sociol. Review, III, pp. 1-12)
French translation of the above (Rev. d'Ethnogr. & de Sociol., Paris)
The father's sister in Oceania (Folk-Lore, XXI., pp. 42-59)
Report of Committee on establishment of a system of measuring mental characters (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1910, p. 267)
Kava-drinking in Melanesia (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1910, p. 734)
The Solomon Island basket (with Mrs. A. H. Quiggin) (Man, X., pp. 161-3)

1911

The ethnological analysis of culture (Pres. Address to Section H. Brit. Assoc.) (Science, XXXIV., pp. 385-97; Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1911, pp. 490-9; Nature, LXXXVII., p. 356)
Report of Committee on mental and physical factors involved in education (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1911, pp. 177-214; 1912, pp. 327-38; 1913, pp. 302-5)

1912

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. IV. Astronomy
The disappearance of useful arts (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1912, pp. 598-9)
Island-names in Melanesia, The Geographical Journal, (Geog. Jorn., pp. 458-68)
Conventionalism in primitive art (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1912, p. 599)
The socioloical significance of myth (Folk-Lore, XXIII., pp. 307-331)
The primitive conception of death (Hibbert J., X., pp. 393-407)
"Andrew Lang: Folklorist and Critic" in Folk-Lore, 23 (1912), pp. 369–371
Articles on Methodology, Marriage, Relationship, Poperty and Inheritance in Part III., Sociology, of 'Notes and Queries on Anthropology,' 4th ed.

1913

Survival in sociology (Sociol. Rev., VI., pp. 293-305)
Report on anthropological research outside America (Carnegie Inst. of Washington publns., 200)
A gypsy pedigree and its lessons (with G. Hall) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1913, p. 625)
Massage in Melanesia (paper read at the 17th Internat. Congress of Medicine, sect. xxiii., pp. 39-42. Lond.)
The bow in New Ireland (Man. XIII., p. 54)
The contact of peoples (essays to W. Ridgeway, pp. 474-92. Cambridge)
Sun-cult and megaliths in Oceania; R. Inst. lect. (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1913, p. 634, and Amer. Anthrop., N.S., XVII., pp. 431-45)

1914

Notes on the Heron pedigree (Gypsy Lore Soc., VII., 88-104)
The History of Melanesian society (Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia, 2 vols. Cambridge)
Kinship and social organisation (Studies in Economic and Political Science, No. 36)
Kin, Kinship (Hastings' 'Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics,' VII., pp. 700-7)
Is Australian culture simple or complex? Gerontocracy and marriage in Australia (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1914, pp. 529-32)

1915

Descent and ceremonial in Ambrim (J.R.A.I., XLV., pp. 229-33)
Review of Prof. G. Elliot Smith's 'The migrations of early culture' (J. Egyptian Archaeol., II, pp. 256-7)
The boomerang in the New Hebrides (Man, Vol. 15, 1915, pp. 106-108)
Melanesian gerontocracy (Man, XV., pp. 145-7)
Marriage (Introductory and Primitive); Mother-right (in Hastings' 'Enc. Religion and Ethics,' VIII., pp. 423-32, 851-9)

1916

Medicine, Magic and Religion- book published 1923] (Fitzpatrick Lects. 1915) (originally published in stages. Lancet XCIV., pp. 59-65, 117-23)
Irrigation and the cultivation of taro (Nature, XCVII., p.514, and Abst. in Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. Mem. and Proc., LX., pp. xliv.-v., 1917)
Sociology and psychology (Sociol. Rev., IX., pp. 1-13)

1917

Freud's psychology of the unconscious. Paper read at the Edinburgh Pathological Club, Mar. 7, 1917 (Lancet, XCV., pp. 912-14)
A case of claustrophobia (Lancet, XCV., pp. 237-40)
Medicine, Magic and Religion (Lancet, XCV., pp. 919-23, 959-64; book published 1923)
New Britain, New Ireland, New Caledonia, New Hebrides (Hastings' 'Enc. Religion and Ethics,' IX., pp. 336-9, 352-5)
Dreams and primitive culture (Bull. J, Rylands Library, IV)
The government of subject peoples ('Science and the Nation,' ed. A.C Seward, pp. 302-328)

1918

The Repression of War Experience (Lancet, XCVI., pp. 513-33)
Maori burial chests (Man, XCIII., p. 97)
Why is the 'unconscious' unconscious? (Brit. J. Psychol., IX., pt. 2, pp. 236-46)

1919

Psychology and medicine (Pres. Address Medical Section, Brit. Psychol. Soc.) (Lancet, XCVII., pp. 889-92)
Mind and medicine (Bull. J. Rylands Library, V.)
Psychiatry and the War (Science, New Series, Vol. 49, No. 1268 (Apr. 18, 1919), pp. 367-369)
Review of C. Wissler's 'The American Indian' (Man, XIX, pp. 75-6)
Psychology and the War; Pres. address to Brit. Assoc., Sub-Section Psychology (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1919, p. 313)

1920

Studies in Neurology (with H. Head and others) Oxford Medical publns. 2 vols. (transcription project) (transcription project)
Anthropology and the missionary (Church Miss. Review, Sept.)
Instinct and the Unconscious 1st edit. Cambridge
The dying out of native races; Lect. at R. Inst. Public Health, May, 1918 (Lancet, XCVIII., pp. 42–4, 109–11)
"The concept of “soul-substance” in New Guinea and Melanesia" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 48–69
Freud's conception of the censorship (Psycho-analytic Rev., VII., 3)
History and ethnology (History, N.S., V., pp. 65–80)
Ships and boats; Solomon Islands (Hastings' 'Enc. Religion and Ethics,' XI., pp. 471-4, 680–5)
"Review of Mrs. Scoresby Routledge’s ‘The mystery of Easter Island’" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 82–87
Review of R.H Lowie's 'Primitive Society' (Amer. Anthrop., XXII., pp. 278–83)
"The statues of Easter Island" in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 294–306
Instinct and the unconscious (Brit. J. of Psychol., X., pp. 1–7)
Psychology and medicine (Brit. J. of Psychol., X., pp. 183–93)

1921

The orgin of hypergamy (J. Bihar and Orissa Research Soc., Patna, VII., pp. 9-24)
Conservatism and plasticity; Pres. Address to the Folk-Lore Soc. (Folk-Lore, XXXII., pp. 10-27)
Affect in the dream (Brit. J. Psychol., XII., pp. 113-24)
Kinship and marriage in India (Man in India, I., pp. 6-10)
The Todas (Hastings' 'Enc. Religion and Ethics,' XII., pp. 354-7)

1922

Instinct and the unconscious. 2nd edit. Cambridge
Psycho-neurotic symptoms associated with miners' nystagmus (Medical Reasearch Council: Special Report Series, 65, pp. 60-64)
Methods of dream analysis (Brit J. Psychol., Medical Section II., pt. 2, pp. 101-108)
The symbolism of rebirth; Pres. Address to Folk-Lore Soc. (Folk-Lore, XXXIII, pp. 14-33)

1922 (posthumous)

The psychological factor (Essays on the depopulation of Melanesia, ed. W.H.R.R., pp. 83- Cambridge)
History and Ethnology, with bibliography (Helps for Students of History, No. 48, S.P.C.K., Lond.)
The relation of complex and sentiment (Brit. J. Psychol., XIII.)

1923

Conflict and Dream (edit. G. Elliot Smith). London
Psychology and Politics (edit. G. Elliot Smith). London

1924

Social Organisation (edit. by W.J Perry). London

1926

Psychology and Ethnology (edit. G. Elliot Smith). London

Documents

Certificate of a Candidate for Election (1908), The Royal Society

Obituaries

Obituary: W.H.R Rivers, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.: An Appreciation- Henry Head (British Medical Journal, June 17th, 1922)
William Halse Rivers Rivers, M.D., F.R.S., President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Born 1864, Died June 4th, 1922- Alfred C. Haddon, F. C. Bartlett and Ethel S. Fegan (Man, Vol. 22, Jul., 1922, pp. 97-104)
Obituary: Dr. W. H. R. Rivers- C. G. Seligman (The Geographical Journal, Vol. 60, No. 2, Aug., 1922, pp. 162-163)
Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F. R. S.- E. N. Fallaize, Folk-Lore, Vol. 33, (1922), pp. 330-333
'W. H. R. Rivers'- J. L. Myres (The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 53, Jan. - Jun., 1923, pp. 14-17)
"To A Very Wise Man": W.H.R Rivers- Walter Langdon Brown (St. Bart's. Hospitals Journal, November 1936)
W. H. R. Rivers-H. D. S. (Journal of the Polynesian Society)