Maud Doria Haviland

Maud Doria Haviland

Maud Doria Haviland, whose married name was Mrs. Harold Hulme Brindley (February 10, 1889, Tamworth, Warwickshire – April 3, 1941, Cambridge) was an English ornithologist.

Maud Haviland married Harold Hulme Brindley, a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

She is the author of the book A summer on the Yenesei (London: E. Arnold,1915)[1]. where she narrates the experiences of an expedition on a trip down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914. This book is inspired the route traversed by Henry Seebohm (1832-1895) in 1877 as described in his '[Siberia in Asia][2]” and after by [H.L. Popham (1864-1943)][3] “Notes of birds observed on the Yenesei River, Siberia, in 1895. Ibis 3: 89-108”.

During this travel she wrote her impressions about the nature and the birds, accompanied by Miss Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886-1921) Polish anthropologist, Miss Dora Curtis painter and Mr. Henry Usher Hall of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876-1944).

The more complete existing bibliographical references are written by T.S. Palmer (Treasurer of the American Ornithologists' Union)[4]) in The Auk Volume 38, Number 1 “The Obituaries” in January,1921[5]. She was active member of this association from 1920.

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