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AU PMB MS 1041
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- 16 October 1873 - 15 October 1878 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm
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Biographical history
Lorimer Fison (1832-1907) was university-educated with an interest in anthropology, was born in Suffolk, England. He migrated to Australia in 1856, joined the Methodist Church, and went to Fiji as a Wesleyan missionary in 1864. He remained in Fiji until 1884, when he returned to Australia and became editor of the Spectator, a Melbourne church paper. Fison published a number of anthropological papers.
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Please see PMB 1039 for full entry
Correspondence, 16 October 1873 to 15 October 1878.
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Access and supply of this material is restricted.<BR> Researchers wishing to have access require the written permission of the Archivist, Uniting Church in Australia Archives, PO Box 2395, North Parramatta NSW 1750, Australia.
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Methodist Church Overseas Missions records held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php
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ms1041