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This is a list of the the various books and online resource we consulted when creating this web site and researching the life of George Brown. It is by no means exhaustive, but does list the main books and sites that we used.


Brown, George. George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary And Explorer: An Autobiography; A Narrative Of Forty-Eight Years' Residence And Travel In Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, And The Solomon Islands (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908)

Brown, George. Melanesians and Polynesians (Reissued by New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972 (1910))

'BUDDLE, Thomas', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 22-Apr-09 URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/buddle-thomas/1.

Davis, Peter (ed.). A Catalogue of the George Brown Ethnographical Collection in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hancock Museum, 1985)

Eves, Richard. Commentary: Missionary or Collector? the Case of George Brown. Museum Anthropology (22 (1), 49-60. 1998)

Rubel, Paula G. and Abraham Rosman. George Brown, Pioneer Missionary and Collector. A Museum Anthropology (20 (1), 60-68. 1996)

Specht, Jim. The George Brown Affair Again Anthropology Today (3. 1-3. 1987)

Gardner, Helen Bertha. Gathering for God: George Brown in Oceania

'BROWN, George (1835 - 1917)', from Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Niel Gunson, originally published Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, pp 256-257, URL: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030237b.htm

'BUDDLE, Thomas', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 22-Apr-09 URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/buddle-thomas/1.