Maud Doria Haviland

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Maud Doria Haviland (Mrs. Harold Hulme Brindley), British ornithologists.

She was born at Tamworth, Warwickshire, England, (February 10, 1889) and died (April 3, 1941) in Cambridge. She married Harold Hulme Brindley, fellow of St. John's College of Cambridge.

She is the author of the beautiful 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.

Her photography is available at [Photo Album of Maria Czaplicka][6]